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THE    CHARTER 


OF  THE 


CITY  OF  SEATTLE 


Adopted     at     the     General     Election     March     3,    1896,    as 
Amended  in  1900, 1902, 1904,  1906, 1908,  1910, 1911  and  1912 


PUBLISHED   BY   AUTHORITY  OF  THE 
CITY  OF  SEATTLE 


SEATTLE 

LOWMAN   &    HANFORD   CO. 
1912 


THE     CHARTER 


OF   THE 


CITY  OF  SEATTLE 


Adopted     at     the     General     Election      March      3,     1896,     as 
Amended  in  1900,  1902,  1904,  1906,  1908,  1910,  1911  and  1912 


PUBLISHED    BY   AUTHORITY  OF   THE 
CITY  OF  SEATTLE 


SEATTLE 

LOWMAN    &    HANFORD   CO. 
1912 


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PREFACE  TO  REVISED  EDITION 

The  revised  edition  contains  the  amendments  to  the  City  Charter  adopted 
March  5,  1912,  together  with  a  new  index  to  the    charter    as    amended. 

JAMES  E.   BRADFORD, 

Corporation  Counsel 
By  HOWARD  A.   HANSON, 

Assistant  Corporation  Coimsei 
Seattle,  May  1,  1912 


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THE    CH A  RTER 

OF  THE 

CITY  OF  SEATTLE 


ADOPTED  AT  THE  GENERAL  ELECTION   MARCH  3,  1896,  AS 
AMENDED   IN    1900,    1902,    1904,    1906,    1908,    1910,    1911    AND    1912 


ARTICLE  I. 

GENERAL  RIGHTS  AND  LIABILITIES. 

Section  1.  Municipality;  Name,  General  Powers: — The  municipal 
corporation,  now  existing  and  known  as  the  City  of  Seattle,  shall  remain 
and  continue  a  body  politic  and  corporate  in  name  and  in  fact,  by  the 
name  of  "The  City  of  Seattle,"  and  by  that  name  shall  have  perpetual 
succession,  may  sue  and  defend  in  all  courts  and  places,  and  in  all  mat- 
ters and  proceedings  whatever,  and  may  have  and  use  a  common  seal, 
and  alter  the  same  at  pleasure,  and  may  purchase,  receive,  hold  and 
enjoy  real  and  personal  property  within  and  without  the  corporate 
limits  of  the  City  of  Seattle,  and  may  sell,  convey,  mortgage  and  dispose 
of  the  same  for  the  common  benefit,  and  may  receive  bequests,  devises, 
gifts  and  donations  of  all  kinds  of  property  within  and  without  the  city 
for  its  own  use  and  benefit,  or  in  trust  for  charitable  or  other  public 
purposes,  and  do  all  acts  necessary  to  carry  out  the  purposes  of  such 
gifts,  bequests,  devises  and  donations,  with  power  to  manage,  sell,  lease 
or  otherwise  dispose  of  the  same  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  the 
gift,  bequest,  devise  or  trust. 

Sec.  2.  Property  Vested  in  City: — The  public  buildings,  lands  and 
property,  all  rights  of  property  and  rights  of  action,  all  moneys,  revenues 
and  income  belonging  or  appertaining  to  the  City  of  Seattle,  are  hereby 
declared  to  be  vested  in  the  said  City  of  Seattle. 

Sec.  3.  Rights  and  Liabilities  Continued: — The  City  of  Seattle 
shall  continue  to  have,  hold  and  enjoy  all  public  buildings,  land,  wharves, 
waters,  property  real  and  personal,  streets,  alleys  and  other  public  places, 
rights  of  property,  rights  of  action,  suits,  actions,  moneys,  revenues,  taxes, 
licenses,  income,  books,  documents,  records,  archives,  claims,  demands, 
and  generally  all  things  in  possession  and  action  of  every  nature  and 
description,  and  shall  be  subject  to  all  obligations,  debt,  liabilities,  dues 
and  duties,  of  the  existing  municipality. 

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4  '•  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    II. 

Sec.  4.  Suits  to  Enforce  Rig-hts: — Suits,  actions  and  proceedings 
may  be  brought  in  the  name  of  the  City  of  Seattle  for  the  recovery  of 
any  property,  money  or  thing  belonging  thereto,  in  law  or  in  equity,  or 
dedicated  to  public  use  therein,  or  for  the  enforcement  of  any  rights  of 
or  contracts  with  said  city,  whether  made  or  arising  or  accruing  before 
or  after  the  adoption  of  this  charter;  and  the  adoption  of  this  charter 
shall  not  operate  to  abate  or  discontinue  any  existing  suit,  action  or 
proceeding  in  court  or  elsewhere,  to  which  said  city  is  a  party. 

Sec.  5.  Contracts  Not  Affected: — All  contracts  of  every  description 
heretofore  duly  and  legally  made  and  entered  into  by  the  City  of  Seattle, 
by  virtue  of  any  existing  law,  shall  remain  valid  and  be  binding  upon 
the  City  of  Seattle,  to  the  extent  only  that  they  are  now  valid  and  binding 
upon  the  City  of  Seattle. 

Sec.  6.  Assessments  Not  Affected: — The  adoption  of  this  charter 
shall  not  affect  any  special  or  local  assessment,  re-assessment  or  pro- 
ceeding relating  thereto,  which  may  be  wholly  or  partly  completed  or 
pending  before  the  city  council,  or  any  board  or  officer  at  the  time  of 
such  adoption,  but  all  such  assessments,  re-assessments  and  proceedings 
may  be  completed  under  the  provisions  of  this  charter;  and  all  things 
done  prior  to  the  adoption  of  this  charter,  relating  to  any  such  assess- 
ment, re-assessment  or  proceeding  now  pending  or  remaining  uncom- 
pleted, shall  be  held  to  be  a  compliance  with  the  provisions  of  this  char- 
ter relating  thereto,  in  so  far  as  such  provisions  are  substantially  the 
same  as  the  provisions  of  the  charter  superseded  hereby,  relating  to  the 
same  matter,  or  all  such  assessments,  re-assessments  and  proceedings 
may  be  completed  under  the  provisions  of  the  charter  which  is  super- 
seded by  this  charter  or  under  the  provisions  of  general  laws  applicable 
thereto. 

Sec.  7.  Continuation  of  Former  Provisions: — All  the  provisions  of 
this  charter  which  are  substantially  identical  with  provisions  of  the 
charter  superseded  hereby,  shall  be  construed  as  continuations  of  such 
former  provisions,  and  not  as  new  enactments. 

Time  Elapsed  for  Filing  Claims,  How  Counted: — In  all  cases  of 
claims  for  damages  against  the  city,  on  which  part  of  the  time  allowed 
for  presenting  such  claims  to  the  city  council  and  filing  the  same  with 
the  city  clerk  has  already  elapsed  at  the  time  of  the  adoption  of  this 
charter,  the  portion  of  time  already  elapsed  shall  be  counted  as  a  part 
of  the  six  months  fixed  by  this  charter  for  presenting  and  filing  such 
claims. 

ARTICLE  II. 

BOUNDARIES,  WARDS  AND  PRECINCTS. 

Section  1.  The  City  of  Seattle  shall  include  in  its  limits  the  fol- 
lowing lands  and  territory,  to-wit: 

(Note: — The  limits  of  the  City  of  Seattle,  as  existing   in    ISiHi.  have  been  changed 
by    the    annexation    of    new    territory,    and    are    thei'efore    omitted.     The    i)roperty    and 


CITY    AND    WARD    BOUNDARIES. 


boundaries  hereinafter  specified  and  described  constitute  the  property  and  boundaries 
of  said  city  as  existing  May  1,  1912.) 

PROPERTY. 

Sections  one,  two,  eleven,  twelve,  thirteen,  fourteen,  fifteen,  twenty- 
three,  twenty-four,  and  portion  of  Sections  three,  nine,  ten,  sixteen, 
twenty-two  and  twenty-five,  Township  25  North,  Range  3  East,  W.  M. 

Sections  five,  six,  seven,  eight,  ten,  seventeen,  eighteen,  nineteen, 
twenty,  twenty-eight,  twenty-nine,  thirty,  thirty-two,  thirty-three  and 
portions  of  Sections  four,  nine,  eleven,  fifteen,  sixteen,  twenty-one, 
twenty-two,  twenty-seven,  thirty-one  and  thirty-four,  Township  25 
North.  Range  4  East,  W.  M. 

Sections  thirteen,  fourteen,  twenty-three,  twenty-four,  twenty-five, 
thirty-six  and  portions  of  Sections  two,  ten,  eleven,  twelve,  fifteen, 
twenty-two,  twenty-six,  thirty-four  and  thirty-five,  Township  24  North, 
Range  3  East,  W.  M. 

Sections  four,  five,  eight,  nine,  sixteen,  eighteen,  nineteen,  twenty- 
one,  twenty-two,  twenty-seven,  twenty-eight,  twenty-nine,  thirty,  thirty- 
one,  thirty-four  and  portions  of  Sections  three,  six,  seven,  ten,  fourteen, 
fifteen,  seventeen,  twenty,  twenty-three,  twenty-four,  twenty-six,  thirty- 
two,  thirty-three  and  thirty-five.  Township  24  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M. 

Portion  of  Sections  one,  two,  three  and  eleven.  Township  23  North, 
Range  4  East,  W.  M. 

BOUNDARY. 

Beginning  at  the  intersection  of  the  north  line  of  Township  25 
North,  Range  3  East,  W.  M.,  with  the  east  shore  of  Puget  Sound  at  deep 
water;  thence  east  on  the  north  line  of  Township  25  North,  Range  3 
East,  W.  M.,  and  Township  25  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M.,  to  the  north- 
east corner  of  the  northwest  quarter  of  the  northwest  quarter  of  Section 
four.  Township  25  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M.;  thence  south  along  the 
east  line  of  the  west  one-half  of  the  west  one-half  of  Section  four.  Town- 
ship 25  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M.,  and  said  east  line  produced  south 
to  the  south  line  of  East  Sixty-fifth  Street;  thence  east  along  said  south 
line  to  the  north  and  south  center  line  of  the  northeast  quarter  of  Sec- 
tion 9,  Township  25  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M. ;  thence  north  along 
said  center  line  to  the  south  line  of  Section  4,  Township  25  North,  Range 
4  East,  W.  M.;  thence  east  along  the  south  lines  of  Sections  four,  three 
and  two.  Township  25  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M.,  and  the  said  south 
lines  produced  to  the  center  line  of  Lake  Washington;  thence  southerly 
and  southeasterly  along  the  said  center  line  to  an  intersection  with  the 
east  and  west  center  line  of  Section  one.  Township  23  North,  Range  4 
East,  W.  M.,  produced  east;  thence  west  along  said  center  line  to  an 
intersection  with  the  easterly  line  of  Kinnear's  First  Addition  to  Rainier 
Beach;  thence  southeasterly  along  the  easterly  line  of  said  addition  to 


6  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    II. 

the  south  line  thereof;  thence  west  along  the  said  south  line  to  an  inter- 
section with  the  west  line  of  Section  one,  Township  23  North,  Range  4 
East,  W.  M. ;  thence  south  along  said  west  line  to  the  south  line  of  said 
Section;  thence  west  along  the  south  line  of  Section  two.  Township  23 
North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M.,  to  an  intersection  with  the  north  and  south 
center  line  of  said  Section  two;  thence  south  along  the  north  and  south 
center  line  of  Section  eleven.  Township  23  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M., 
to  the  east  and  west  center  line  of  said  Section  eleven;  thence  west 
along  the  said  center  line  to  an  intersection  with  the  west  line  of  said 
Section;  thence  north  along  said  west  line  and  the  west  line  of  Section 
two.  Township  23  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M.,  to  the  east  and  west 
center  line  of  Section  three.  Township  23  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M. ; 
thence  west  along  said  center  line  to  the  west  line  of  said  Section  three. 
Township  23  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M. ;  thence  north  along  the  west 
line  of  said  Section  three.  Township  23  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M.,  and 
the  west  line  of  Section  thirty-four,  Township  24  North,  Range  4  East, 
W.  M.,  to  the  east  and  west  center  line  of  Section  thirty-three,  Township 
24  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M. ;  thence  west  along  the  said  center  line 
to  the  center  line  of  the  Duwamish  River;  thence  northwesterly  along 
said  center  line  to  the  intersection  of  the  south  line  of  Section  twenty- 
eight.  Township  24  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M. ;  thence  west  along  said 
south  line  and  the  south  line  of  Section  twenty-nine,  Township  24  North, 
Range  4  East,  W.  M.,  to  the  east  line  of  River  Park  Addition:  thence 
south  along  the  east  line  of  River  Park  Addition  to  the  north  line  of 
South  Park  Addition;  thence  east  along  said  north  line  to  the  northeast 
corner  of  South  Park  Addition;  thence  continuing  south  along  the  east 
line  of  said  addition  to  Dallas  Avenue  or  County  Road;  thence  following 
the  County  Road  in  an  easterly  direction  to  a  point  on  said  road  directly 
east  of  the  southeast  corner  of  South  Park  Addition;  thence  west  along 
the  south  line  of  said  addition  and  the  south  line  produced  to  the  north- 
east corner  of  Excelsior  Acre  Tracts  No.  2 ;  thence  south  to  the  southeast 
corner  thereof;  thence  west  along  the  south  line  of  Excelsior  Acre  Tracts 
No.  2  and  Excelsior  Acre  Tracts  to  the  southwest  corner  of  last  named 
tracts;  thence  north  to  an  intersection  with  the  north  line  of  the  south 
one-half  of  the  south  one-half  of  Section  thirty-two.  Township  24  North, 
Range  4  East,  W.  M. ;  thence  west  to  the  west  line  of  Section  thirty-two. 
Township  24  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M.;  thence  south  to  the  south  line 
of  said  Section;  thence  west  on  the  south  line  of  Section  thirty-one. 
Township  24  North,  Range  4  East,  W.  M.,  and  continuing  west  on  the 
south  line  of  Sections  thirty-five  and  thirty-six.  Township  24  North, 
Range  3  East,  W.  M.,  and  said  south  line  produced  to  an  intersection  with 
the  east  shore  of  Puget  Sound  at  deep  water;  thence  northerly  along 
said  easterly  shore  to  the  beginning — except  that  portion  of  King  County 
Second  Addition  lying  north  of  the  center  line  of  Dawson  Street  pro- 
duced West. 

Sec.  2.     Ward  Boundaries: — The  City  of  Seattle  is  hereby  divided 
into  fourteen  wards,  designated  and  bounded  as  follows: 

(NOTE:     The  ward  boundaries,  as  fixed  by  the  charter  of  1896,  have,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  those  of  the  Third  and  Seventh  Wards,  been  changed  by  ordinance.     The  fol- 


CITY    AND    WARD    BOUNDARIES. 


lowing  are  the  boundaries  of  the  various  wards  as  fixed  hy  charter  or  ordinance  prior 

to  May  1,  1912) : 

First  Ward. 

As  established  by  Ordinance  No.  12996,  approved  November  11,  1905: 

Beginning  at  the  intersection  of  the  center  lines  of  Yesler  Way  and  Ninth  Avenue 
South;  thence  south  along  the  center  line  of  Ninth  Avenue  South  to  the  center  line 
of  Jackson  Street;  thence  east  along  the  center  line  of  Jackson  Street  to  the  center 
line  of  Twelfth  Avenue  South;  thence  south  along  the  center  line  of  Twelfth  Avenue 
South  to  the  center  line  of  Judkins  Street;  thence  west  along  the  center  line  of  Jud- 
kins  Street  to  the  center  line  of  Eleventh  Avenue  South;  thence  south  along  the  cen- 
ter line  of  Eleventh  Avenue  South  to  the  center  line  of  Holgate  Street;  thence  east 
along  the  center  line  of  Holgate  Street  to  the  center  line  of  Twelfth  Avenue  South; 
thence  south  along  the  center  line  of  Twelfth  Avenue  South  to  the  center  line  of  Han- 
ford  Street;  thence  east  along  the  center  line  of  Hanford  Street  to  the  east  line  of  sec- 
tion seventeen  (17),  township  twenty-four  (24)  north,  range  four  (4)  east;  thence 
south  along  the  line  between  sections  16  and  17  of  said  township  and  range  to  the 
north  line  of  the  L.  M.  Collins'  Donation  Claim  No.  46,  King  County,  Washington; 
thence  west  along  the  north  line  of  said  L.  M.  Collins'  Donation  Claim  to  the  north- 
west corner  thereof;  thence  south  along  the  west  line  of  said  L.  M.  Collins'  Donation 
Claim  to  the  north  line  of  Eli  Maple  Donation  Claim  No.  39,  King  County,  Washing- 
ton; thence  west  along  the  north  line  of  the  said  Eli  Maple  Donation  Claim  to  the 
northwest  corner  thereof;  thence  west  to  the  government  meander  line  of  lot  two  (2), 
section  19,  township  24  north,  range  4  east;  thence  following  said  meander  line  of 
said  lot  2  in  a  northwesterly  direction  to  the  south  line  of  lot  one  (1)  of  said  section 
19,  said  township  and  range;  thence  along  the  government  meander  line  of  said  lot  1 
in  a  northerly  direction  to  the  section  line  dividing  sections  eighteen  (18)  and  nine- 
teen (19)  of  said  township  and  range;  thence  following  along  the  government  mean- 
der line  of  lot  five  (5)  in  section  eighteen  (18),  said  township  and  range,  in  a  north- 
easterly direction  to  the  section  line  dividing  sections  17  and  IS,  said  township  and 
range;  thence  north  along  said  section  line  to  the  meander  line  on  the  north  side  of 
lot  one  (1),  in  section  18;  thence  westward  along  the  south  boundary  of  the  City  of 
Seattle  to  the  center  line  of  Elliott  Bay  and  the  Duwamish  river;  thence  northerly 
along  said  center  line  of  Elliott  Bay  and  the  Duwamish  river  to  an  intersection  with 
the  center  line  of  Yesler  Way  produced  west;  thence  east  along  the  center  line  of 
Yesler  Way  produced,  and  Yesler  Way  to  the  center  line  of  Ninth  Avenue  South  and 
the  place  of  beginning. 

Second  Ward. 

As  established  by  Ordinance  No.  12996,  approved  November  11,  1905: 

Beginning  at  the  intersection  of  the  center  lines  of  Yesler  Way  and  Ninth  Avenue 
South;  thence  south  along  the  center  line  of  Ninth  Avenue  South  to  the  center  line 
of  Jackson  Street;  thence  east  along  the  center  line  of  Jackson  Street  to  the  center 
line  of  Twelfth  Avenue  South;  thence  south  along  the  center  line  of  Twelfth  Avenue 
South  to  the  center  line  of  Judkins  Street;  thence  west  along  the  center  line  of  Judkins 
Street  to  the  center  line  of  Eleventh  Avenue  South;  thence  south  along  the  center 
line  of  Eleventh  Avenue  South  to  the  center  line  of  Holgate  Street;  thence  east  along 
the  center  line  of  Holgate  Street  to  the  center  line  of  Twelfth  Avenue  South;  thence 
south  along  the  center  line  of  Twelfth  Avenue  South  to  the  center  line  of  Hanford 
Street;  thence  east  along  the  center  line  of  Hanford  Street  and  the  south  boundary 
line  of  the  City  of  Seattle  to  an  intersection  with  the  mid-channel  of  Lake  Washing- 
ton; thence  northerly  along  the  mid-channel  of  Lake  Washington  to  an  intersection 
with  the  center  line  of  Yesler  Way  produced,  east;  thence  west  along  the  center  line 
of  Yesler  Way  produced,  and  Yesler  Way  to  an  intersection  with  the  center  line  of 
Ninth  Avenue  South  and  the  place  of  beginning. 

Third  Ward. 

As  established  by  charter: 

Commencing  at  the  intersection  of  the  center  line  of  Yesler  Way  with  the  center 
line  of  Broadway  and  running  thence  north  along  the  center  line  of  Broadway  to  the 
center  line  of  Madison  Street;  thence  northeasterly  along  the  center  line  of  East  Madi- 
son Street  and  East  Madison  Street  produced,  to  the  point  in  Lake  Washington  where 


8  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    II. 

East  Madison  Street  so  produced  would  intersect  the  section  line  between  sections  16 
and  21,  township  25  north,  range  4  east,  produced  eastward;  thence  east  to  the  east 
boundary  of  the  city;  thence  south  along  the  east  boundary  of  the  city  to  the  north 
boundary  of  the  Second  Ward;  thence  west  in  a  straight  line  along  the  center  line  of 
Yesler  Way  produced,  and  Yesler  Way  to  the  point  of  beginning. 

Fourth  Ward. 

As  established  by  Ordinance  No.   12996,  approved  November  11,  1905: 

Beginning  at  the  intersection  of  the  center  line  of  Yesler  Way  and  Broadway; 
thence  north  along  the  center  line  of  Broadway  to  the  center  line  of  Madison  Street; 
thence  southwesterly  along  the  center  line  of  Madison  Street  to  the  center  line  of  Rail- 
road Avenue;  thence  west  along  the  center  line  of  Madison  Street  produced,  to  an 
intersection  with  the  west  boundary  line  of  the  City  of  Seattle;  thence  south  along 
the  west  boundary  line  of  the  city  to  an  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  Yesler 
Way  produced  west;  thence  east  along  the  center  line  of  Yesler  Way  produced,  and 
Yesler  Way  to  an  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  Broadway  and  the  place  of 
beginning. 

Fifth  Ward. 

As  established  by  Ordinance  No.  12996,  approved  November  11,  1905: 

Beginning  at  the  intersection  of  the  center  lines  of  Madison  Street  and  Minor 
Avenue;  thence  northerly  along  the  center  line  of  Minor  Avenue  to  the  center  line 
of  Olive  Street;  thence  westerly  along  the  center  line  of  Olive  Street  to  the  center 
line  of  Stewart  Street;  thence  westerly  along  the  center  line  of  Stewart  Street  to  the 
center  line  of  Pine  Street;  thence  westerly  along  the  center  line  of  Pine  Street  to  the 
center  line  of  Railroad  Avenue;  thence  southerly  along  the  center  line  of  Railroad 
Avenue  to  the  center  line  of  Pike  Street;  thence  west  along  the  center  line  of  Pike 
Street  and  Pike  Street  produced,  west  to  the  west  boundary  line  of  the  City  of  Seattle; 
thence  southerly  along  the  west  boundary  line  of  the  city  to  an  intersection  with  the 
center  line  of  Madison  Street  produced,  west;  thence  east  along  the  center  line  of 
Madison  Street  produced,  and  the  center  line  of  Madison  Street  to  the  center  line  of 
Railroad  Avenue;  thence  easterly  along  the  center  line  of  Madison  Street  to  an  inter- 
section with  the  center  line  of  Minor  Avenue  and  the  place  of  beginning. 

Sixth  Ward. 

As  established  by  Ordinance  No.  12996,  approved  November  11,  1905: 

Beginning  at  a  point  on  the  west  boundary  line  of  the  City  of  Seattle  where  the 
same  is  intersected  by  the  center  line  of  Denny  Way  produced;  thence  east  along 
the  center  line  of  Denny  Way  produced,  and  Denny  Way  to  the  center  line  of  Ninth 
Avenue;  thence  southerly  along  the  center  line  of  Ninth  Avenue  to  the  center  line  of 
Olive  Street;  thence  westerly  along  the  center  line  of  Olive  Street  to  the  center  line 
of  Stewart  Street;  thence  westerly  along  the  center  line  of  Stewart  Street  to  the  cen- 
ter line  of  Pine  Street;  thence  westerly  along  the  center  line  of  Pine  Street  to  the 
center  line  of  Railroad  Avenue:  thence  southerly  along  the  center  line  of  Railroad 
Avenue  to  the  center  line  of  Pike  Street;  thence  west  along  the  center  line  of  Pike 
Street  and  Pike  Street  produced,  to  the  west  boundary  line  of  the  City  of  Seattle; 
thence  northwesterly  along  the  west  boundary  line  of  the  city  to  an  intersection  with 
the  center  line  of  Denny  Way  produced  west,  and  the  place  of  beginning. 

Seventh  Ward. 

As  established  by  charter: 

Commencing  on  the  center  line  of  Madison  Street  at  the  point  where  the  same  is 
intersected  by  the  center  line  of  Minor  Avenue,  and  running  thence  northerly  along 
the  center  line  of  Minor  Avenue  to  the  center  line  of  Olive  Street;  thence  westerly 
along  the  center  line  of  Olive  Street  to  the  center  line  of  Ninth  Avenue;  thence  north- 
erly along  the  center  line  of  Ninth  Avenue  to  the  center  line  of  Denny  Way;  thence 
east  along  the  center  line  of  Denny  Way  to  the  center  line  of  Westlake  Avenue; 
thence  north  along  the  center  line  of  Westlake  Avenue  to  Valley  Street,  and  continu- 
ing due  north  to  mid-channel  in  Lake  Union,  and  thence  northeast,  east  and  south- 
east, following  the  mid-channel  of  said  lake,  to  the  intersection  of  the  section  line 
between  sections  16  and  21,  township  25  north,  range  4  east,  at  the  portage  between 


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Lakes  Union  and  Washington:  thence  east  on  said  section  line  produced,  to  the 
intersection  of  East  Madison  Street  produced,  and  thence  southwesterly,  along  the 
center  line  of  East  Madison  Street  produced.  East  Madison  Street  and  Madison  Street 
to  the  point  of  beginning. 

Eig:htli  Ward. 

As  established  by  Ordinance  No.  12338,  approved  April  26,  1905: 

Beginning  at  the  center  line  of  Denny  Way  at  its  intersection  with  the  center 
line  of  Westlake  Avenue;  running  thence  north  along  the  center  line  of  Westlake 
Avenue  to  Valley  Street,  and  continuing  due  north  to  the  mid-channel  of  Lake  Union, 
being  a  point  on  the  center  line  of  section  nineteen  (19),  township  twenty-five  (25) 
north,  range  four  (4)  east  produced,  eastward;  thence  west  along  said  center  line  of 
said  section  19  to  an  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  Warren  Avenue;  thence 
northerly  along  Warren  Avenue  produced,  to  an  intersection  with  the  center  line  of 
Ray  Street  produced  eastward;  thence  westerly  along  the  center  line  of  Ray  Street 
produced  eastward,  and  Ray  Street  to  its  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  Eleventh 
Avenue  West;  thence  southerly  along  the  center  line  of  said  Eleventh  Avenue  West 
to  the  center  line  of  McGraw  Street  produced;  thence  westerly  along  the  center  line  of 
McGraw  Street  produced,  to  the  intersection  of  said  line  with  the  line  between  sec- 
tions 23  and  24,  township  25  north,  range  3  east;  thence  south  along  said  section 
line  and  section  line  produced,  to  a  point  opposite  the  center  line  of  Denny  Way,  pro- 
duced west;  thence  easterly  along  the  center  line  produced,  and  Denny  Way  to  its 
intersection  with  the  center  line  of  Westlake  Avenue,  and  the  place  of  beginning. 

^iuth  Ward. 

As  established  by  Ordinance  No.  12338,  approved  April  26,  1905: 

Beginning  at  the  intersection  of  the  mid-channel  of  Lake  Union  with  the  east  and 
west  center  line  of  section  19,  township  25  north,  range  4  east,  W.  M.,  produced  east, 
and  running  thence  west  along  said  center  line  of  said  section  to  its  intersection  with 
the  center  line  of  Warren  Avenue;  thence  northerly  along  the  center  line  of  Warren 
Avenue  and  Warren  Avenue  produced,  to  its  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  Ray 
Street  produced  eastward;  thence  westerly  along  the  center  line  of  Ray  Street  pro- 
duced, and  Ray  Street  to  its  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  Eleventh  Avenue 
West;  thence  southerly  along  the  center  line  of  Eleventh  Avenue  West  to  its  inter- 
section with  the  center  line  of  McGraw  Street  produced;  thence  westerly  along  the 
center  line  of  McGraw  Street  produced  to  its  intersection  with  the  section  line  between 
section  23  and  24,  township  25  north,  range  3  east;  thence  southerly  along  said  sec- 
tion line  between  sections  23  and  24  to  its  intersection  with  the  main  channel  of 
Elliott  Bay;  thence  northwesterly  along  the  main  channel  of  Elliott  Bay  to  its  inter- 
section with  the  waters  of  Puget  Sound  and  Admiralty  Inlet;  thence  northerly  and 
northeasterly  along  the  center  line  of  said  Puget  Sound  or  Admiralty  Inlet  to  an  inter- 
section with  the  southerly  line  of  the  present  corporate  limits  of  the  town  (now  city) 
of  Ballard;  thence  southeasterly  along  the  southerly  corporate  limits  of  the  City 
of  Ballard,  and  following  the  center  line  of  Shilsole  Bay  and  Salmon  Bay  to  their 
intersection  with  the  south  boundary  line  of  the  north  half  (N.  %)  of  the  northwest 
quarter  (N.  W.  %)  of  section  13,  township  25  north,  of  range  3  east,  W.  M. ;  thence 
easterly  along  said  line  to  the  north  and  south  center  line  through  said  section  13; 
thence  north  following  the  center  line  of  said  section  13,  also  of  section  12,  and  also 
through  section  1  of  said  township  and  range,  to  an  intersection  with  the  center  line 
of  West  Seventieth  Street  produced;  thence  easterly  along  the  center  line  of  West 
Seventieth  Street  and  West  Seventieth  Street  produced,  and  North  Seventieth  Street 
to  an  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  said  Greenwood  Avenue:  thence  southerly 
along  the  center  line  of  said  Greenwood  Avenue  to  an  intersection  with  the  center 
line  of  North  Fiftieth  Street;  thence  easterly  along  the  center  line  of  North  Fiftieth 
Street  to  its  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  Meridian  Avenue;  thence  southerly 
along  the  center  line  of  Meridian  Avenue  to  its  intersection  with  the  mid-channel  of 
Lake  Union,  being  a  point  on  the  center  line  of  section  19,  township  25  north,  range 
4  east,  produced  eastward;  thence  westerly  along  the  said  center  line  of  said  section 
19  to  the  point  of  beginning. 

Tenth  Ward. 

As  established  by  Ordinance  No.  12338,  approved  April  26,  1905: 

Beginning  at  the  intersection  of  Meridian  Avenue  with  the  mid-channel  of  Lake 
Union,  and  running  thence  northeasterly,  easterly  and   southeasterly  along  said  mid- 


10  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    II. 

channel  to  its  intersection  witli  the  section  line  between  sections  16  and  21,  township 
25  north,  range  4  east,  W.  M.;  thence  easterly  along  said  section  line  and  said  line 
produced,  to  the  east  section  line  of  said  section  16,  produced  south;  thence  northerly 
along  said  east  section  line  of  said  section  16  and  the  east  line  of  section  9  of  said 
township  and  range,  to  an  intersection  with  the  east  and  west  center  line  of  said 
section  9;  thence  west  through  the  center  of  said  section  9  and  to  an  intersection 
wi;h  the  line  between  sections  8  and  9,  of  said  township  and  range;  thence  north 
along  the  line  between  said  sections  8  and  9  to  an  intersection  with  the  center  line 
of  East  Sixtieth  Street  produced;  thence  westerly  along  the  center  line  of  East  Sixtieth 
Street  produced,  and  East  Sixtieth  Street  to  its  intersection  with  the  center  line  of 
Latona  Avenue;  thence  southerly  along  the  center  line  of  Latona  Avenue  to  its  inter- 
section with  the  center  line  of  East  Fifty-sixth  Street;  thence  westerly  along  the 
center  line  of  East  Fifty-sixth  Street  and  North  Fifty-sixth  Street  to  their  intersection 
with  the  center  line  of  Keystone  Place;  thence  southwesterly  along  the  center  line 
of  North  Fifty-fifth  Street  to  its  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  Meridian  Avenue; 
thence  southerly  along  the  center  line  of  Meridian  Avenue  to  its  intersection  with  the 
mid-channel  of  Lake  Union  and  the  place  of  beginning. 

To  which  was  added  the  territory  annexed  by  Ordinance  No.  15228,  approved 
January  15,  1907,  as  Ravenna;  by  Ordinance  No.  25791,  approved  Nov.  30,  1910.  as  un- 
corporated  territory    (Laurelhurst). 

Elevonth  Ward. 

As  established  by  Ordinance  No.  12338,  approved  April  26,  1905: 

Beginning  at  the  intersection  of  the  center  line  of  East  Sixtieth  Street  produced; 
with  the  east  line  of  section  8,  township  25  north,  range  4  east,  W.  M.,  running  thence 
north  along  the  east  line  of  sections  8  and  5,  in  said  township  and  range,  to  the 
northeast  corner  of  said  section  5;  thence  west  along  the  north  boundary  line  of 
sections  5  and  6  in  said  township  and  range,  and  along  the  north  boundary  line  of 
section  1,  of  township  25  north,  range  3  east,  W.  M.,  to  an  intersection  with  the  quarter 
section  corner  on  the  north  line  of  said  section  1;  thence  south  along  the  north  and 
south  center  line  of  said  section  1  to  its  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  West 
Seventieth  Street  produced;  thence  easterly  along  the  center  line  of  West  Seventieth 
Street  produced,  West  Seventieth  Street  and  North  Seventieth  Street  to  an  intersection 
with  the  center  line  of  Greenwood  Avenue;  thence  southerly  along  the  center  line 
of  Greenwood  Avenue  to  its  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  North  Fiftieth  Street; 
thence  easterly  along  the  center  line  of  North  Fiftieth  Street  to  its  intersection  with 
the  center  line  of  iMeridian  Avenue;  thence  northerly  along  the  center  line  of  Meridian 
Avenue  to  its  intersection  with  the  center  line  of  North  Fifty-fifth  Street;  thence 
easterly  and  northeasterly  along  the  center  line  of  North  Fifty-fifth  Street  to  Keystone 
Place;  thence  easterly  along  North  Fifty-sixth  Street  and  East  Fifty-sixth  Street  to 
Latona  Avenue:  thence  northerly  along  Latona  Avenue  to  East  Sixtieth  Street;  thence 
easterly  along  the  center  line  of  East  Sixtieth  Street  and  East  Sixtieth  Street  pro- 
duced, to  the  east  line  of  section  8,  and  the  place  of  beginning. 

Twelfth  Ward. 

Includes  the  territory  annexed  by  Ordinance  No..  15172,  approved  January  7, 
1907,  as  Southeast  Seattle;  by  Ordinance  No.  15917,  approved  May  3,  1907,  as  South 
Park;  by  Ordinance  No.  15918,  approved  May  3,  1907.  as  Columbia,  and  by  Ordinance 
No.  16909,  approved  September  12,  1907,  as  Dunlap.  Rainier  Beach  and  Atlantic  City. 

Tliirteentli  AVard. 

Includes  the  territory  formerly  the  City  of  Ballard,  annexed  by  Ordinance  No. 
16083,  approved  May  29,  1907. 

Fourteentli  Ward. 

Includes  the  territory  formerly  the  City  of  West  Seattle,  annexed  by  Ordinance 
No.  16558,  approved  July  24,  1907,  and  the  territory  formerly  known  as  Georgetown, 
annexed  by  Ordinance  No.  23814,  approved  April  11,  1910. 

Sec.  3.     Re-districting-   City   Into   Wards: — The    city   council    shall 
have  power  in  the  year  eighteen  hundred  and  ninety-seven,  and  in  every 


CITY    AND    WARD    BOUNDARIES.  11 

fourth  year  thereafter,  to  re-district  the  city  into  wards,  and  also  to 
create  additional  wards  out  of  existing  wards. 

Population  and  Number  of  Wards: — There  shall  never  be  more 
than  one  ward  to  each  seven  thousand  population  as  shown  by  any 
official  census  last  preceding,  and  not  less  than  nine  wards  at  any  time. 

Wards  Approximately  Equal  in  Population  and  Compact;  No  New 
Ward  Formed  Within  Sixty  Days  Preceding-  Any  Election: — The  wards 
shall  be  made  as  nearly  equal  in  population  and  as  geographically  com- 
pact as  possible,  nor  shall  any  ordinance  re-districting  the  city  into 
wards  or  creating  new  wards  out  of  old  take  effect  within  sixty  days 
preceding  any  election  held  in  the  city  for  municipal,  county,  district 
or  state  officers. 

Sec.  4.  Annexed  Territory  to  Be  Added  to  Adjoining  Ward  or  3rade 
a  New  Ward: — Whenever  any  new  territory  is  added  to  the  city  the 
same  shall  be  attached  to  and  be  a  part  of  the  ward  adjoining  thereto; 
and  if  such  territory  shall  adjoin  more  than  one  ward  it  shall  be  added 
to  and  be  a  part  of  the  said  ward  adjoining  thereto  which  shall  have 
cast  the  smallest  vote  at  the  regular  municipal  election  last  preceding 
such  annexation:  Provided,  That  if  the  city  council  shall  deem  the 
population  of  such  territory  to  be  sufficiently  large  to  constitute  a 
separate  ward,  it  may,  by  ordinance,  declare  such  territory  a  distinct 
ward  and  assign  a  number  thereto;  and  the  same  shall  remain  a  dis- 
tinct ward  until  the  city  is  re-districted,  as  provided  in  section  3  of 
this  article.  No  new  ward  shall  be  thus  created  in  excess  of  the 
number  of  wards  allowed  by  the  provisions  of  said  section  3. 

Sec.   5.     Election  Precincts;   Size;   No   Change  Within  Sixty  Days 

Before  Election: — The  city  council  shall,  by  ordinance,  as  often  as 
may  be  necessary,  divide  each  ward  into  two  or  more  election  precincts, 
so  that  each  precinct  shall  contain  as  nearly  as  may  be  250  voters, 
and  in  such  manner  as  will  best  subserve  convenience  in  voting  and 
will  conform  to  the  general  laws  of  the  state:  Provided,  That  no  alter- 
ation of  such  precincts  shall  take  effect  within  sixty  days  next  pre- 
ceding any  election  held  in  the  city  for  municipal,  county,  district  or 
state  officers  after  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  ninety-six. 

Sec.  6.     Change  in  Ward  Boundaries  Not  to  Abolish  Any  Office: — 

No  change  in  the  boundary  of  any  ward  shall  operate  to  abolish  any 
office  or  exclude  any  councilman  or  other  city  officer  from  office  before 
the  expiration  of  the  term  for  which  the  incumbent  was  elected  or 
appointed. 

ARTICLE  III. 

DISTRIBUTION  OF  GOVERNMENT. 

Section  1.  Departments: — The  government  of  the  City  of  Seattle 
shall  be  divided  in  fourteen  departments  and  no  more;   that  is  to  say: 

1.  The  Legislative  Department. 

2.  The  Executive  Department. 

3.  The  Clerical  Department. 

4.  The  Department  of  Police. 

5.  The  Department  of  Public  Works. 


12  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IV. 

6.  The  Department  of  Finance. 

7.  The  Department  of  Sanitation. 

8.  The  Fire  Department. 

9.  The  Harbor  Department. 

10.  The  Department  of  Parl<;s. 

11.  The  Library  Department. 

12.  The  Law  Department. 

13.  The  Judicial  Department. 

14.  The  Civil  Service  Department. 

Sec.  2.  The  said  departments,  with  the  exception  of  the  Judicial, 
shall  be  constituted  as  provided  in  Articles  IV.,  V.,  VL,  VII.,  VIII.,  IX., 
X.,  XL,  XII.,  Xlli.,  XIV.,  XV.  and  XVI.  of  this  charter,  subject  to 
such  changes  only  as  are  in  this  charter  expressly  authorized. 

Sec.    3.      Heads   of   Departments;    Official   Communications: — The 

Mayor  shall  be  deemed  the  head  of  the  Executive  Department,  the 
president  of  the  city  council  shall  be  deemed  the  head  of  the  Legislative 
Department,  the  librarian  shall  be  deemed  the  head  of  the  Library 
Department,  and  the  members  of  the  commissions  or  boards  created  by 
this  charter,  and  the  principal  unsubordinated  officers  in  departments 
wherein  there  is  no  commission  or  board  constituted  by  this  charter 
shall  be  deemed  heads  of  their  respective  departments,  but  no  head 
of  department  shall  have  or  exercise  any  power  or  authority  not  pro- 
vided for  elsewhere  in  this  charter.  Official  communications  between 
different  departments,  except  as  in  this  charter  otherwise  provided,  shall 
be  through  the  heads  of  departments. 

ARTICLE  IV. 

THE  LEGISLATIVE  DEPARTMENT. 

Section  1.  Legislative  Power,  Where  Vested: — The  legislative 
powers  of  the  City  of  Seattle  shall  be  vested  in  a  mayor  and  city 
council,  who  shall  have  such  powers  as  are  provided  for  by  this  charter; 
but  the  power  to  propose  for  themselves  any  ordinance  dealing  with 
any  matter  within  the  realm  of  local  affairs  or  municipal  business, 
and  to  enact  or  reject  the  same  at  the  polls,  independent  of  the  mayor 
and  city  council,  is  also  reserved  by  the  people  of  the  City  of  Seattle, 
and  provision  made  for  the  exercise  of  such  reserved  power;  and  there 
is  further  reserved  by  and  provision  made  for  the  exercise  by  the  people 
of  Seattle  of  the  power,  at  their  own  option,  to  require  submission  to 
the  vote  of  the  qualified  electors  and  thereby  to  approve  or  reject  at 
the  polls  any  ordinance,  or  any  section,  item  or  part  of  any  ordinance 
dealing  with  any  matter  within  the  realm  of  local  affairs  or  municipal 
business,  which  may  have  passed  the  city  council  and  mayor,  acting 
in  the  usual  prescribed  manner  as  the  ordinary  legislative  authority. 

Initiative  and  lleferendum;  How  Exercised;  Petition;  Comptroller 
to  Verify  Signatures;  Completion  of  Petition,  Consideration  in  Council: 

— The  first  power  reserved  by  the  people  is  the  initiative  and  referen- 
dum. It  may  be  exercised  on  petition  of  a  number  of  qualified  voters 
equal  to  not  less  than  ten  (10)  per  cent,  of  the  total  number  of  votes 
cast  for  the  office  of  mayor  at  the  last  preceding  municipal  election, 
proposing  and  asking  the  enactment  as  an  ordinance  of  a  bill  or  meas- 
ure, the  full  text  of  which  shall  be  included  in  the  petition.     Any  initia- 


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tive  petition  shall  be  filed  with  the  city  comptroller,  who  shall  verify 
the  sufficiency  of  the  signatures  to  the  petition,  and  transmit  it,  to- 
gether with  his  report  thereon,  to  the  city  council  at  a  regular  meeting 
not  more  than  twenty  (20)  days  after  the  filing  of  the  petition,  and 
such  transmission  shall  be  the  introduction  of  the  initiative  bill  or 
measure  in  the  city  council.  If  the  comptroller  shall  find  any  petition 
to  be  insufficient  in  signatures,  he  shall  notify  the  principal  petitioners, 
and  an  additional  twenty  (20)  days  shall  be  allowed  them  in  which  to 
complete  such  petition  to  the  required  percentage.  Its  consideration 
shall  take  precedence  over  all  other  business  before  the  city  council, 
except  appropriation  bills  and  emergency  measures  necessary  for  the 
immediate  preservation  of  the  public  peace,  health  or  safety. 

Council  May  Enact  or  Reject  but  Not  Modify;  Council  May  Pass 
Substitute: — The  city  council  may  enact,  or  reject,  any  initiative  bill 
or  measure,  but  shall  not  amend  or  modify  the  same.  It  may,  however, 
after  rejection  of  any  initiative  bill  or  measure,  propose  and  pass  a 
different  one  dealing  with  the  same  subject. 

When  Rejected  Pleasure  and  Substitute  Submitted  to  People;  Gen- 
eral and  Special  Elections: — If  the  city  council  shall  have  rejected  any 
initiative  measure,  or  shall  during  thirty  (30)  days  after  receipt  thereof 
have  failed  to  take  final  action  thereon,  or  shall  have  passed  a  different 
measure  dealing  with  the  same  subject,  if  any  has  been  passed,  shall  be 
taken  in  charge  by  the  city  comptroller  and  submitted  to  the  qualified 
electors  for  approval  or  rejection  at  the  next  regular  election;  but  the 
city  council  may  in  its  discretion  provide  for  a  special  election  at  which 
the  vote  shall  be  taken. 

When  Special  Election  Required: — And  if  the  initiative  petition 
in  any  case  shall  be  signed  by  a  number  of  qualified  voters  equal  to 
not  less  than  twenty  (20)  per  cent,  of  the  total  number  of  votes  cast 
for  the  office  of  mayor  at  the  last  preceding  municipal  election,  or  shall 
at  any  time  be  strengthened  in  qualified  signatures  up  to  said  percentage, 
then  the  city  council  shall  provide  for  a  special  election  upon  said 
subject,  to  be  held  within  forty  (40)  days  from  the  proof  of  sufficiency 
of  the  percentage  of  signatures. 

Notice  and  Conduct  of  Election: — Official  publication  shall  be  made, 
notices  of  election  given,  and  the  manner  and  conduct  of  election,  the 
preparation  of  the  official  ballots,  the  counting  and  canvassing  of  the 
votes,  and  the  certifying  of  the  returns  of  the  election,  shall  be  done  as 
is  provided  for  the  submission  to  the  vote  of  the  people  of  amendments 
to  the  city  charter. 

Measures  Adopted  to  Become  Ordinances,  When: — Any  measure 
thus  submitted  to  the  vote  of  the  people,  which  shall  receive  in  its 
favor  a  majority  of  all  the  votes  cast  for  and  against  the  same,  shall 
become  an  ordinance  of  the  City  of  Seattle,  and  be  in  full  force  and 
effect  from  and  after  proclamation  by  the  mayor,  which  shall  be  made, 
and  published  in  the  city  official  newspaper,  within  five  (5)  days  after 
the  election. 

Submission  of  Substitute  and  Initiative  Measures;  If  Both  Ap- 
proved, That  Having  Hig-hest  Vote  Adopted:- — In  case  the  city  council 
shall,  after  rejection  of  the  initiative  measure,  have  passed  a  different 


14  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IV. 

measure,  dealing  with  the  same  subject,  it  shall  be  submitted  at  the 
same  election  with  the  initiative  measure  and  the  vote  of  the  qualified 
electors  also  taken  for  and  against  the  same,  and  if  both  such  meas- 
ures be  approved  by  a  majority  vote,  if  they  be  conflicting  in  any  par- 
ticular, then  the  one  receiving  the  highest  number  of  affirmative  votes 
shall  thereby  be  adopted,  and  the  other  shall  be  considered  as  rejected. 

Power  of  Simple  Referendum  as  to  Ordinances;  Exceptions;  by 
Petition  or  by  Council: — The  second  power  reserved  by  the  people 
is  the  simple  referendum,  and  it  may  be  exercised  and  ordered  (except 
as  to  ordinances  necessary  for  the  immediate  preservation  of  the  public 
peace,  health  or  safety,  and  except  as  to  ordinances  providing  for  the 
approval  of  local  improvement  assessment  rolls  and  providing  for  the 
issuance  of  local  improvement  bonds),  as  to  any  ordinance  which  has 
passed  the  city  council  and  mayor  (acting  in  their  usual  prescribed 
manner  as  the  ordinary  legislative  authority  of  the  city),  either  upon 
a  petition  signed  by  a  number  of  qualified  voters  equal  to  not  less  than 
eight  (8)  per  cent,  of  the  total  number  of  votes  cast  for  the  office  of 
mayor  at  the  last  preceding  municipal  election,  or  by  the  city  council 
itself  without  petition. 

Emersreney  3reasures,  What  to  Contain;  Vote  Required  to  Pass: — 

When  an  emergency  exists  in  which  it  is  necessary  for  the  immediate 
preservation  of  the  public  peace,  health  or  safety,  that  an  ordinance 
shall  become  effective  without  delay,  such  emergency  and  necessity, 
and  the  facts  creating  the  same,  shall  be  stated  in  one  section  of  the 
bill,  and  it  shall  not  become  an  ordinance  unless  on  its  final  passage 
by  the  city  council  at  least  three-fourths  (%)  of  all  the  members  elected 
vote  in  its  favor  (the  vote  being  taken  by  yeas  and  nays,  and  the 
names  of  those  voting  for  and  against  being  entered  in  the  journal), 
and  it  shall  have  been  approved  by  the  mayor,  whereupon  it  shall  be 
officially  published  and  of  full  force  and  effect. 

Referendum   by  Petition;   Effect  of;   Verification  of  Siarnatures: — 

The  referendum  may  be  invoked  by  petition  bearing  the  signatures 
of  the  required  percentage  of  qualified  voters  as  to  any  non-emergency 
law  or  ordinance,  or  any  section,  item  or  part  of  any  such  law  or  or- 
dinance, which  petition  shall  be  filed  with  the  city  comptroller  before 
the  day  fixed  for  the  taking  effect  of  the  said  law  or  ordinance,  which 
shall  in  no  case  be  less  than  thirty  (30)  days  after  the  final  favorable 
action  thereon  by  the  mayor  and  city  council,  acting  in  their  usual 
prescribed  manner  as  the  ordinary  legislative  authority  of  the  city,  and 
the  filing  of  such  referendum  petition  as  to  any  such  ordinance  or  sec- 
tion, item  or  part  thereof,  shall  operate  to  suspend  the  taking  effect 
of  the  same,  or  any  further  action  thereon,  except  as  herein  after  pro- 
vided, viz:  The  city  comptroller  shall  verify  the  sufficiency  of  the 
signatures  to  the  petition  and  transmit  it,  together  with  his  report 
thereon,  to  the  city  council  at  a  regular  meeting  not  less  than  twenty 
(20)  days  after  the  filing  of  the  petition. 

Submission  at  General  or  Special  Election: — The  city  council  shall 
thereupon  provide  for  submitting  the  said  ordinance  or  section,  item 
or  part  thereof,  to  the  vote  of  the  qualified  electors  for  ratification  or 
rejection,  either  at  the  next  regular  municipal  election,  or  at  a  speciaJ 
election,  as  the  city  council  in  its  discretion  may  provide. 


THE    LEGISLATIVE    DEPARTMENT.  15 

IVotice  and  Conduct  of  Election: — Official  publication  shall  be  made, 
notice  of  election  given,  and  the  manner  and  conduct  of  election,  the 
preparation  of  the  official  ballots,  the  counting  and  canvassing  of  votes, 
and  the  certifying  of  the  returns  of  the  election,  shall  be  done  substan- 
tially as  provided  in  the  case  of  submission  to  vote  of  the  people  of 
amendments  to  the  city  charter. 

If  Ordinance  Approved,  When  to  Take  Effect: — If  the  ordinance 
thus  submitted  to  the  referendum  shall  receive  in  its  favor  a  majority 
of  all  the  votes  cast  for  and  against  the  same,  it  shall  be  in  full  force 
and  effect  from  and  after  the  proclamation  by  the  mayor,  which  shall 
be  made  and  published  in  the  city  official  nev^spaper,  within  five  (5) 
days  after  the  election.  Provided,  however,  that  if  the  ordinance  itself 
shall  designate  a  subsequent  date  for  taking  effect,  the  proclamation 
shall  name  the  said  date  as  the  time  for  taking  effect.  If  the  ordinance 
shall  fail  to  receive  the  majority  vote  in  its  favor,  it  shall  be  consid- 
ered as  rejected  and  shall  be  of  no  force  or  effect. 

Charter  Provisions  Superseded: — Any  provisions  of  this  charter, 
and  particularly  any  provisions  in  section  14  and  paragraph  "forty- 
first"  of  section  18  of  this  article,  insofar  as  they  are  in  conflict  with 
the  provisions  of  this  section,  are  hereby  superseded.  (As  amended 
.March  7,  1911.     Cf.  Am.  1908.) 

Sec.  2.  City  Council  Shall  Consist  of  Nine  Members: — The  City 
Council  shall  consist  of  nine  (9)  members,  elected  from  the  city  at  large. 

Subdivision  A.  Date  and  Terms  of  Election: — A  general  munici- 
pal election  shall  be  held  on  the  first  Tuesday  following  the  first  Mon- 
day in  March,  1911,  and  annually  thereafter.  At  the  general  election 
to  be  held  in  March,  1911,  there  shall  be  elected  nine  members  of  the 
City  Council.  The  three  receiving  the  highest  vote  shall  be  elected 
for  a  term  of  three  years;  the  three  receiving  the  next  highest  vote 
shall  be  elected  for  a  term  of  two  years;  the  three  receiving  the  next 
following  highest  vote  shall  be  elected  for  a  term  of  one  year.  All 
shall  be  elected  from  the  city  at  large.  At  each  annual  general  munici- 
pal election  after  the  year  1911,  there  shall  be  elected  three  councilmen 
for  a  term  of  three  years. 

Subdivision  B.     Council    of    Eighteen    Members    Continued    Until 

1911: — Until  the  election  in  the  year  1911,  and  the  organization  of 
the  City  Council  thereupon  in  pursuance  of  Subdivision  A  of  this  sec- 
tion, the  City  Council  shall  be  constituted  in  the  manner  required  by 
tht  provisions  of  the  city  charter  relating  thereto,  as  the  same  existed 
and  were  in  force  at  the  time  of  the  adoption  of  this  amendment;  Pro- 
vided, however,  that  the  terms  of  the  several  members,  whether  elected 
as  councilmen-at-large,  or  as  ward  councilmen,  shall  cease  and  ter- 
minate at  12  o'clock  noon  on  the  second  Monday  after  the  general 
municipal  election  in  March,  1911. 

Subdivision  C.     Annual  Salary  Fixed  at  Three  Thousand  Dollars: 

— From  and  after  the  organization  of  the  city  council  in  1911,  in  pur- 
suance of  the  provision  of  Subdivision  A  of  this  section,  each  member 
of  the  city  council  shall  receive  an  annual  salary  of  Three  Thousand 
($3,000)  Dollars,  payable  in  equal  monthly  installments.  Until  the 
organization  of  the  city  council  in  1911,  as  above  provided,  the  pro- 
visions of  the  charter  existing  and  in  force  at  the  time  of  the  adoption 


16  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IV. 

hereof,  regarding  the  salary  of  city  councilmen  shall  continue  as  therein 
set  forth. 

Subdivision  D.  Eligibility  for  Membership: — No  person  shall  be 
eligible  for  member  of  the  City  Council,  unless  he  shall  have  been  a 
citizen  of  the  United  States,  and  a  resident  and  elector  of  the  City  of 
Seattle  for  a  continuous  period  of  at  least  four  years  next  prior  to  his 
election.  Residence  anu  voting  within  the  limits  of  any  territory  which 
has  been,  or  many  hereafter  become  annexed  to  the  City  of  Seattle,  shall 
be  deemed  and  construed  to  have  been  within  the  city,  after  any  such 
annexation  has  been  accomplished. 

Subdivision  E.  PoAvers — Limitations — Recall: — All  the  powers  of 
the  city  council  shall  be  exercised  pursuant  to  the  provisions  and  limi- 
tations of  the  initiative  and  referendum  powers  of  the  people  as  set  forth 
in  Section  1  of  this  Article  IV.,  and  as  are  or  may  be  elsewhere  pro- 
vided in  the  city  charter.  The  members  of  the  city  council  shall  be 
subject  to  recall  by  the  people  and  termination  of  their  term  of  ofRce 
in  the  manner  set  forth  in  Section  11  of  Article  XVIII. 

Any  provisions  of  this  charter,  and  particularly  the  provisions  of 
Sections  3  and  4  of  this  Article  IV.,  in  so  far  as  they  are  in  conflict  with 
the  provisions  of  this  section  are  hereby  superseded  and  repealed. 
(As  amended  March  S,  1910.) 

Sec.  3.     Amended  1900.  1908:  repealed  1910. 

Sec.  4.     Repealed  1910. 

Sec.  5.  Quorum;  Less  Number  May  Adjourn  and  Compel  Attend- 
ance of  3lembers: — A  majority  of  all  members  elected  shall  constitute 
a  quorum,  but  a  less  number  may  adjourn  from  day  to  day,  or  till  the 
time  of  the  next  regular  meeting,  and  may  compel  the  attendance  of 
absent  members  in  such  manner  and  under  such  penalties  as  the  council 
shall  prescribe. 

Sec.  6.     Powers   and    Duties    of    Council: — The  city  council  shall — 

First.  Election  and  Removal  of  President: — Annually,  and  also 
whenever  a  vacancy  occurs,  choose  from  its  members  its  president,  who 
shall  perform  the  usual  functions  of  a  presiding  officer,  and  may  be 
removed  by  the  affirmative  vote  of  not  less  than  two-thirds  of  all  the 
members. 

Second.  Establishment  of  Rules: — Establish  rules  for  its  proceed- 
ings. 

Third.  Journal;  Vote  by  Yeas  and  Nays: — Keep  a  journal  of  its 
proceedings  and  allow  the  proceedings  to  be  published,  and  take  the 
yeas  and  nays  on  any  question  on  demand  of  any  two  members  and 
enter  the  same  in  the  journal. 

Fourth.  Punishment  and  Expulsion  of  Members: — Have  authority 
to  punish  its  members  and  others  for  disorderly  or  otherwise  contemptu- 
ous behavior  in  its  presence,  and  to  expel  for  such  behavior  in  its  pres- 
ence any  member  by  the  affirmative  vote  of  not  less  than  two-thirds  of 
its  members,  specifying  in  the  order  of  expulsion  the  cause  thereof. 

Fifth.  Committees: — Have  authority  to  create  and  use  committees 
of  its  members,  in  order  to  facilitate  the  discharge  of  its  legislative  func- 


SECTION  9,  ARTICLE  IV. 

Section  9.  ^4.s-  ainrndcd  March  'f,  WIS.)  Regular  Meeting's  of  Coun- 
cil:— The  Council  shall  meet  upon  each  Monday  of  each  month,  or  if  any 
of  these  days  be  a  legal  holiday,  then  upon  the  next  day,  not  a  legal  holi- 
day, thereafter,  and  all  its  sessions  shall  be  public,  and  it  shall  not 
adjourn  to  any  other  place  than  its  regular  place  of  meeting. 


THE    LEGISLATIVE    DEPARTMENT.  17 

lions;  Provided,  That  no  committee  of  the  council  and  no  part  of  any 
committee  and  no  member  sliall  liave  or  exercise  executive  or  admin- 
istrative power,  except  as  otherwise  expressly  provided  in  this  charter. 

Sixth.  Power  to  Compel  Attendance  of  Witnesses  and  Production 
of  Papers: — Have  power  to  compel  attendance  of  witnesses  as  well  as 
production  of  papers  and  things  pertinent  to  business  before  it  or  any 
of  its  committees. 

Sec.  7.  Finance  Committee,  Powers  and  Duties: — The  city  council 
shall  have  power  to  and  shall  appoint  from  its  members  a  committee, 
consisting  of  three  or  more,  to  be  denominated  "finance  committee," 
and  to  fill  all  vacancies  in  said  committee.  Such  committee  shall  have 
power  to  investigate  the  transactions  and  accounts  of  all  officers  having 
the  collection,  custody  and  disbursement  of  public  money,  or  having 
the  power  to  approve,  allow  or  audit  demands  on  the  treasury;  it  shall 
have  free  access  to  any  records,  books  and  papers  in  all  public  offices; 
and  shall  have  power  to  administer  oaths  or  affirmations,  and  to  ex- 
amine witnesses  and  compel  attendance  before  it  by  subpoena.  Said 
committee  may  visit  any  of  the  public  offices,  when  and  as  often  as  it 
thinks  proper,  and  make  its  examinations  and  investigations  therein 
without  hindrance.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  committee,  as  often 
as  once  in  every  six  months,  to  examine  the  official  bonds  of  all  city 
officers  and  depositories  of  the  city  funds,  and  inquire  into  and  investi- 
gate the  sufficiency  and  solvency  of  the  sureties  thereon  and  report 
the  facts  to  the  mayor.  Such  report  shall  specify  each  bond,  with  the 
sureties  and  the  amount  for  which  each  surety  is  bound,  and  state 
wliether  or  not  they  are  deemed  sufficient  and  solvent.  Upon  such 
report  the  mayor  shall  ac^^  so  as  to  protect  the  city,  and  may  require 
new  bonds  when  necessary,  and  he  may  suspend  the  officer  until  a 
sufficient  bond  is  filed  and  approved.  In  the  exercise  of  its  functions, 
a  concurrence  of  a  majority  of  the  members  of  said  committee  shall  be 
deemed  sufficient.  Said  committee  shall  keep  a  record  of  Its  proceed- 
ings, with  the  names  of  the  witnesses  examined,  and  a  substantial  state- 
ment of  the  evidence  taken.  If  from  the  examination  made  by  said 
committee  it  shall  appear  tliat  a  misdemeanor  in  office  or  a  defalcation 
has  been  committed  by  any  officer,  said  committee  shall  immediately 
report  to  the  mayor,  who,  if  he  approve  such  report,  shall  forthwith 
suspend  such  officer,  and  take  the  proper  steps  under  this  charter  to 
remove  him  or  to  cause  his  removal.  Any  police  officer  shall  execute 
the  process  and  orders  of  said  committee. 

Sec.  8.     Examination   of  Books   of   Treasurer  and   Comptroller: — . 

The  finance  committee  shall,  at  least  once  each  year,  be  required  to 
have  a  thorough  examination  made  by  expert  accountants  of  all  the 
books  of  the  city  treasurer  and  the  city  comptroller,  unless  such  exami- 
nation be  made  by  other  lawful  authority,  and  report  the  result  of  such 
investigation  to  the  city  council.     (As  amended  March  o,  1012.) 

Sec.  9.  Eegular  3Ieetine^s  of  Council: — The  council  shall  meet 
upon  the  first  and  third  Mondays  of  each  month,  or  if  either  of  those 
days  be  a  legal  holiday,  then  upon  the  next  day,  not  a  legal  holiday, 
thereafter,  and  all  its  sessions  shall  be  public,  and  it  shall  not  adjourn  to 
any  other  place  than  its  regular  place  of  meeting.'  ^  ^' 


18  CHARTER.    ARTICLE    IV. 

Special  3Ieetiiigs: — The  mayor,  or,  in  his  absence  or  disability,  the 
president  of  the  council,  or  any  three  councilmen,  may  call  a  special 
meeting  of  the  council.     (As  amended  March  6.  1906.) 

Sec.  10.  Legislative  Acts  by  Ordinance;  Subject  flatter;  Title; 
Enacting  Clause: — Every  legislative  act  of  said  city  shall  be  by  ordi- 
nance. Every  ordinance  shall-  be  clearly  entitled  and  shall  contain  but 
one  object,  which  shall  be  clearly  expressed  in  its  title.  The  enacting 
clause  of  every  ordinance  shall  be:  "Be  it  ordained  by  the  City  of 
Seattle  as  follows:" 

Sec.  11.  Majority  Vote  by  Yeas  and  >ays  Required  to  Pass  Ordi- 
nance; Eecord: — No  bill  shall  become  an  ordinance  unless  on  its  final 
passage  at  least  a  majority  of  all  the  members  elected  vote  in  its  favor, 
and  the  vote  be  taken  by  yeas  and  nays,  and  the  names  of  those  voting 
for  and  against  the  same  be  entered  in  the  journal. 

Final  Passage,  When: — No  ordinance,  other  than  an  ordinance  pro- 
viding for  appropriations  for  salaries  or  current  expenses,  rhall  be 
passed  on  its  final  reading  at  the  meeting  at  which  it  is  introduced. 

Sec.  12.  Ordinances,  How  Amended: — No  ordinance  shall  be  re- 
vised, re-enacted,  or  amended  by  reference  to  its  title;  but  the  ordinance 
to  be  revised  or  re-enacted  or  the  section  thereof  amended,  shall  be  re- 
enacted  at  length  as  revised  or  amended. 

Sec.  13.  3Iotion  to  Reconsider: — When  a  bill  is  put  upon  its  final 
passage  and  fails  to  pass,  and  a  motion  is  made  to  reconsider,  the  vote 
upon  such  motion  shall  not  be  acted  on  before  the  next  meeting  of  the 
council. 

Bills  Granting  Franchise: — ^o  bill  for  the  grant  of  any  franchise 
shall  be  finally  passed  within  thirty  days  after  its  introduction,  nor  until 
it  has  been  published  in  the  official  newspaper  of  the  city  at  the  expense 
of  the  applicant  for  ten  days  daily. 

Sec.  14.  Ordinances,  AVIien  to  Take  Effect: — No  ordinance  shall 
take  effect  until  ten  days  after  its  passage,  unless  otherwise  expressed 
in  said  ordinance.  (I^ee  Sec.  1.  Art.  I\  .) 

Sec.  15.  Bills,  How  Signed: — Every  bill,  after  it  has  passed,  shall 
be  signed  by  the  president  of  the  council  in  open  session,  in  authentica- 
tion of  its  passage;  in  signing  such  bill,  the  president  shall  call  the  at- 
tention of  the  council  to  the  bill,  and  that  he  is  about  to  sign  it,  and,  if 
any  member  so  request,  the  bill  shall  be  read  at  length  for  information 
as  to  its  correctness  as  enrolled.  If  any  member  object  that  the  bill  is 
not  the  same  as  when  considered  and  passed,  such  objection  shall  be 
passed  upon,  and  if  sustained  the  president  shall  withhold  his  signature 
and  the  bill  shall  be  corrected  and  signed  before  the  council  proceeds 
to  any  other  business. 

Sec.  16.  Bills  to  lie  PresenUui  to  3Iayor.  Wlien: — Every  bill  which 
shall  have  passed  and  been  authenticated  as  provided  in  the  last  section 
shall  within  five  days  thereafter  be  presented  to  the  mayor. 

Return  of  Bills;  Veto: — The  mayor  shall  return  such  bill  to  the 
council  within  ten  days  after  receiving  it,  and  if  he  do  not  disapprove  it, 


THE    LEGISLATIVE    DEPARTMENT.  19 

it  shall  become  an  ordinance;  if  he  disapprove  it,  he  shall,  when  he  so 
returns  it,  specify  his  objections  thereto  in  writing.  The  objections  of 
the  mayor  shall  be  entered  at  large  on  the  journal  of  the  council,  and 
published  in  the  city  official  newspaper. 

Reconsideration  of  Vetoed  Bills: — The  council  shall,  not  less  than 
five  days  after  such  publication,  and  within  thirty  days  after  such  bill 
shall  have  been  so  returned,  reconsider  and  vote  upon  the  same,  and 
if  the  same  shall,  upon  such  reconsideration,  be  again  passed  by  the 
affirmative  vote  of  not  less  than  two-thirds  of  all  the  members  elected, 
the  president  of  the  council  shall  certify  the  fact  on  the  bill,  and  when 
so  certified  the  bill  shall  become  an  ordinance  with  like  effect  as  if 
it  had  not  been  disapproved  by  the  mayor;  but  if  the  bill  so  returned 
shall  fail  to  receive  upon  tlie  first  vote  thereon  an  affirmative  vote  of 
two-thirds  of  the  members  elected  it  shall  be  deemed  finally  lost.  The 
vote  on  such  reconsideration  shall  be  taken  by  yeas  and  nays,  and 
the  names  of  members  voting  for  or  against  the  same  shall  be  entered 
in  the  journal  thereof. 

Sec.  17.     Record  and  Publication  of  Ordinances  and  Resolutions: 

— All  ordinances  and  resolutions  shall  b«^  deposited  with  the  city  clerk, 
who  shall  record  the  same  at  length  in  a  suitable  book  kept  for  that 
purpose.  All  ordinances  of  a  general,  public  or  permanent  nature,  and 
those  imposing  a  fine,  penalty  or  forfeiture,  shall  be  published  at 
least  once  in  the  city  official  newspaper  within  three  days  after  the 
same  shall  liave  become  a  law;  Provided,  That  the  publication  of  all 
ordinances  granting  any  franchise  or  private  privilege  or  approving 
or  vacating  any  plat  shall  be  at  the  expense  of  the  applicant  therefor. 

Sec.  18.  Powers  of  Council: — The  city  council  shall  have  power 
by  ordinance  and  not  otherwise — 

First.  Elections;  Appointment  and  Election  of  Officers;  Officer 
Defined: — To  provide  for  general  and  special  elections  for  questions  to 
be  voted  upon,  and  to  provide  for  the  appointment  and  election  of 
officers.  Any  person  who,  by  the  provisions  of  this  charter  or  any 
amendment  thereto,  may  be  appointed  or  elected  to  any  office  or  em- 
ployment created  in  pursuance  thereof,  shall  be  deemed  an  officer 
within  tlie  meaning  of  this  section. 

Second.  Assessment,  Levy  and  Collection  of  Taxes;  Limitation 
of  Levies;  Poll  Tax: — To  provide  for  the  assessment,  levying  and 
collecting  taxes  on  real  and  personal  property  for  the  corporate  uses 
and  purposes  of  the  city,  and  to  provide  for  the  payment  of  the  debts 
and  expenses  of  the  corporation,  but  no  tax  for  general  municipal 
purposes  shall  exceed  four-tenths  of  one  per  centum  per  annum;  no 
tax  to  provide  fire  engines  or  other  fire  apparatus  and  a  supply  of 
water  to  quench  fire,  or  for  any  of  said  purposes,  shall  exceed  three- 
tenths  of  one  per  centum  per  annum;  no  tax  to  provide  for  purchase 
and  condemnation  of  land  for  public  uses  and  improvement  and  orna- 
mentation thereof,  and  erection  of  structures  thereon,  or  to  provide 
for  any  of  said  objects,  shall  exceed  two-tenths  of  one  per  centum  per 
annum;  no  tax  to  provide  for  furnishing  gas,  electricity  and  lights,  and 


20  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IV. 

for  construction  of  works  necessary  or  convenient  therefor,  or  for  any 
of  said  purposes,  shall  exceed  two-tenths  of  one  per  centum  per  annum; 
no  tax  for  streets  and  alley  improvement  and  repair,  exclusive  of  assess- 
ments mentioned  in  subdivisions  seventh,  eighth  and  tenth  of  this 
section,  and  construction  and  repair  of  sewers,  and  conduits,  other 
than  water  pipe,  or  for  any  of  said  purposes,  shall  exceed  four-tenths 
of  one  per  centum  per  annum;  no  tax  for  construction  and  repair  of 
water  works  and  appurtenances,  or  of  any  of  the  same,  shall  exceed 
one  per  centum  per  annum;  and  no  tax  for  the  maintenance  and  op- 
eration of  water  works  and  for  paying  rent  for  water  works  or  water, 
or  for  any  of  said  purposes,  shall  exceed  five-tenths  of  one  per  centum 
per  annum;  and  all  taxes,  exclusive  of  assessments  for  improvements 
mentioned  in  said  subdivisions  seventh,  eighth  and  tenth,  shall  not  in 
any  year  exceed  three  per  centum  of  the  property  assessed;  and  all 
taxes  for  special  purposes  other  than  water  works  and  water  supply, 
and  exclusive  of  assessments  for  improvements  mentioned  in  said  sub- 
divisions Seventh,  eighth  and  tenth,  shall  not  in  any  year  exceed  one 
and  one-tenth  per  centum  of  the  property  assessed;  and  to  provide 
for  the  assessment  and  collection  of  a  road  poll  tax  not  exceeding  four 
dollars  per  poll  on  all  male  inhabitants  between  the  ages  of  twenty- 
one  and  fifty  years  inclusive. 

Third.  Coutrol  of  Finauces  and  Property: — To  control  the  finances 
and  property  of  the  city;  Provided,  That  the  city  council  shall  have  no 
administrative  as  distinguished  from  the  legislative  power. 

Fourth.  Acquisition  and  Disposal  of  Property: — To  acquire  by  pur- 
chase or  by  exercise  of  the  right  of  eminent  domain  or  otherwise  and 
for  the  use  and  in  the  name  of  the  city,  such  lands  and  other  property 
as  may  be  deemed  necessary,  proper  or  convenient  for  any  of  the  cor- 
porate uses  provided  for  by  this  charter,  and  to  acquire  for  the  use  of 
the  city  and  property  by  gift,  bequest  or  devise,  and  to  dispose  of  all 
such  property  as  it  shall  have,  as  the  interests  of  the  city  may  from 
time  to  time  require. 

Fifth.  Borrowing  3Ioney  and  Issuing  Bonds;  Limit  of  Indebted- 
ness; Funding"  Bonds: — To  borrow  money  for  corporate  purposes  on 
the  credit  of  the  city  and  to  authorize  the  issue  of  negotiable  bonds 
therefor  on  such  condition  or  conditions  and  in  such  manner  as  may 
be  prescribed  in  this  charter  and  the  constitution  and  laws  of  this  state; 
but  the  indebtedness  of  the  city  shall  at  no  time  exceed  in  the  aggregate 
ten  per  centum  of  the  value  of  all  taxable  property  in  said  city,  such' 
value  to  be  ascertained  and  determined  by  the  last  assessment  for  city 
purposes  previous  to  the  incurring  of  such  indebtedness,  and  under  the 
limitations  above  stated  to  authorize  the  issue  of  bonds  in  place  of  or 
to  supply  the  means  with  which  to  meet  maturing  bonds  or  other  indebt- 
edness or  for  the  consolidation  or  funding  of  the  same;  Provided,  That 
no  bond  or  set  of  bonds  shall  be  issued  for  a  longer  period  than  twenty 
years. 

Sixth.  Purchase  and  Appropriation  of  Property: — To  provide  for 
the  purchase  or  appropriation  of  property  within  or  without  the  corpo- 
rate limits  of  the  city  for  its  corporate  uses,  upon  making  just  compen- 


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sation  to  the  owners  thereof;  and  to  provide  for  the  institution  and 
maintenance  of  such  proceedings  «xs  may  be  autliorized  by  the  general 
laws  of  the  state  for  the  appropriation  of  private  property  for  public  use. 

Seventh.  Establish,  Improve,  Control  and  Vacate  Streets  and 
Public  Places;  Certain  Streets  and  Lands  to  pass  to  or  vest  in  Port  of 
Seattle,  When: — To  lay  out,  establish,  open,  alter,  widen,  extend,  grade, 
regrade,  establish  grades  of  and  improve  streets,  alleys,  avenues, 
wharves,  and  other  public  grounds,  and  to  regulate  and  control  the  use 
thereof,  and  to  vacate  the  same  and  to  authorize  or  prohibit  the  use 
of  electricity,  at,  in  or  upon  any  of  said  streets  or  for  other  purposes, 
and  to  prescribe  the  terms  and  conditions  upon  which  the  same  may 
be  so  used,  and  to  regulate  the  use  thereof;  to  extend,  establish,  widen 
or  vacate  any  street,  over  or  across,  or  along  the  harbor,  shore  or  tide 
lands  in  the  city;  Provided,  That  whenever  the  City  of  Seattle  or  the 
Port  of  Seattle  shall  have  presented  to  the  qualified  electors  of  either 
municipality  for  adoption  or  rejection,  and  there  shall  have  been 
adopted  by  vote  of  the  electors  voting  thereon  a  comprehensive  plan 
or  scheme  of  harbor  or  port  improvement,  that  the  control  of  such 
streets  and  the  title  to  any  lands  belonging  to  the  city  which  shall  fall 
within  the  limits  of  such  proposed  improvement  shall  pass  to  or  be 
vested  in  the  Port  of  Seattle  within  thirty  (30)  days  after  said  Port  of 
Seattle  is  prepared  to  proceed  with  the  improvement  so  authorized  and 
shall  have  so  certified  to  the  city  council.     (As  amended  March  5,  1912.) 

Eighth.  Change  of  Grades;  Payment  of  Damages: — To  change  the 
grade  of  any  street,  highway  or  alley  within  its  corporate  limits  and  to 
provide  for  the  payment  of  damages  to  any  abutting  owner  or  owners 
who  shall  have  built  or  made  other  improvements  upon  such  street, 
highway  or  alley  at  any  point  opposite  to  the  point  where  such  change 
shall  be  made  in  such  grade. 

Ninth.  Control  of  Railroads  in  PnlHlc  Places: — To  authorize  or 
prohibit  the  locating  and  constructing  of  any  railroad  or  street  railroad 
in  any  street,  alley  or  public  place  of  the  city,  and  to  prescribe  the  terms 
and  conditions  upon  which  any  such  railroad  or  street  railroad  shall  be 
located,  operated  or  constructed;  to  provide  for  the  alteration,  change 
of  grade  or  removal  thereof;  to  regulate  the  moving  and  operation  of 
railroad  and  street  railroad  trains,  cars  and  locomotives  within  the  cor- 
porate limits  of  the  city;  and  to  provide  for,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  council  by  ordinance  to  provide  for,  the  protection  of  all  persons 
and  property  against  injury  in  the  use  of  any  such  railroad  or  street 
railroad,  or  car  thereof. 

Tenth.     Local  Improvements  at  Expense  of  Property  Benefited: — 

To  provide  for  making  local  improvements  and  to  levy  and  collect  special 
assessments  on  property  benefited  thereby,  and  for  paying  for  the  same 
or  any  portion  thereof. 

Eleventh.  Acquisition  and  Improvement  of  Parks  :^ — To  acquire  by 
purchase  or  by  exercise  of  the  right  of  eminent  domain  or  otherwise, 
lands  for  public  parks,  within  or  without  the  limits  of  said  city,  and  to 
improve  the  same. 


22  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IV. 

Twelfth.  Construction,  Repair  and  Control  of  Bridges,  Viaducts 
and  Tunnels: — To  construct  and  keep  in  repair  bridges,  viaducts  and 
tunnels,  and  to  regulate  the  use  thereof. 

Twelfth  (a).  (Adopted  March  3,  1908).  Acquiring,  Opening  and  Op- 
erating Stone  Quarries,  Asphalt  Plants  and  3Ianufacture  and  Sale  of 
Products: — To  provide  by  ordinance  for  acquiring,  opening  and  op- 
erating stone  quarries,  either  within  or  without  the  city  limits,  and  for 
the  erection  of  asphalt  plants  and  the  preparation,  manufacture  and 
sale  of  all  such  stone  or  asphalt  products  or  compositions  or  other 
materials  which  may  be  used  in  street  construction  or  maintenance, 
and  to  fix  the  price  at  wliich  such  materials  shall  be  sold. 

Thirteenth.  Determine  Work  to  be  Paid  for  by  and  Provide  for 
Local  Assessments: — To  determine  what  work  shall  be  done  or  improve- 
ments made  at  the  expense  in  whole  or  in  part  of  the  owners  of  the 
adjoining,  contiguous  or  proximate  property,  or  others  especially  bene- 
fited thereby,  and  to  provide  for  the  manner  of  making  and  collecting 
assessments  therefor. 

Fourteenth.  Acquisition.  Erection  and  Operation  of  Water  Works; 
Sale  of  Water,  Free  Water: — To  provide  for  erecting,  purchasing  or 
otherwise  acquiring,  as  the  sole  and  exclusive  property  of  the  city,  water 
works,  within  or  without  the  corporate  limits  of  the  city,  to  supply 
said  city  and  its  inhabitants  with  water  for  any  and  all  purposes,  and 
to  fix,  alter,  regulate  and  control  the  use  and  price  of  the  water  so  sup- 
plied; Provided,  however,  that  the  city  council  shall  not  enter  into  any 
contract  or  agreement  whatever  with  any  person,  company  or  corpora- 
tion for  its  water  supply  or  distribution,  or  for  the  joint  or  entire  use 
of  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the  city  water  supply  or  distributing  plant, 
including  conduits,  mains  and  reservoirs,  without  first  submitting  such 
proposed  contract  or  agreement  to  a  vote  of  the  qualified  electors  of  the 
city  at  a  general  election,  or  special  election  called  for  that  purpose,  and 
unless  a  majority  of  said  electors  voting  at  said  election  shall  vote  there- 
for; Provided  further.  That  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  so  con- 
strued as  to  prevent  the  city  from  selling  to  any  consumer  water  for 
power  or  other  uses,  or  tlie  power  manufactured  from  water,  upon  terms 
open  to  all  consumers;  and  Provided  further,  That  the  city  council  may, 
in  its  discretion,  grant,  by  ordinance,  to  any  institution  which  is  sup- 
ported in  whole  or  in  part  by  public  charities,  the  free  use  of  city  water. 
(As  amended  March  6*,  1906.) 

Fifteenth.  Public  Utilities — 31unicipal  Light  Plant,  Street  Rail- 
ways, Telephones,  Ferries,  Water  Power  Sites — Powers  relating  to: — To 

construct,  condemn  and  purchase,  purchase,  acquire,  add  to,  maintain  and 
operate,  within  or  without  the  limits  of  the  city,  works,  plants  and  facili- 
ties for  the  purpose  of  furnishing  the  city  and  the  inhabitants  thereof,  and 
any  other  person,  with  gas,  electricity  and  other  means  of  power  and  fa- 
cilities for  lighting,  heating,  fuel  and  power  purposes,  public  and  private, 
with  full  authority  to  regulate  and  control  the  use,  distribution  and  price 
thereof,  together  with  the  right  to  handle  and  sell,  or  lease,  any  meters, 
lamps,  motors,  transformers,  and  equipment  for  accessories  of  any  and 


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every  kind,  necessary  and  convenient  for  the  use,  distribution  and  sale 
thereof;  to  authorize  the  construction  of  such  plant  or  plants  by  others 
for  the  same  purpose,  and  to  purchase  such  gas,  electricity  or  power 
from  others,  either  within  or  without  the  city,  for  its  own  use,  and  for 
the  purpose  of  selling  to  its  inhabitants  and  other  persons  doing  busi- 
ness within   the   city,   and  to  regulate  and   control   the   use   and   price 
thereof;    to  construct,   condemn  and   purchase,   purchase,   acquire,   add 
to,  maintain,  operate  or  lease  cable,  electric,  steam  and  other  railways 
within  or  without  the  limits  of  the  city  for  the  transportation  of  freight 
and  passengers  above,  upon  or  underneath  the  ground,  with  full  author- 
ity to  regulate  and  control  the  use  and  operation  thereof,  and  to  fix, 
alter,  regulate,  and  control  the  fares  and  rates  on  all  such  railways  and 
on  all  other  railways  of  like  nature  within  the  city  owned  or  operated 
by  others;   to  construct,  condemn  and  purchase,  purchase,  acquire,  add 
to,  maintain  and  operate,  within  or  without  the  limits  of  the  city,  works, 
plants  and  facilities  for  the  purpose  of  furnishing  the  city  and  the  in- 
habitants thereof  and  any  other  persons,  with  telephone  service,  local 
and  long  distance,. or  either,  and  to  connect  such  city  service  with  any 
and  all  other  telephone  systems,  local  and  long  distance;   and  to  regu- 
late and  control  the  use  and  price  thereof;   to  lay  out,  construct,  con- 
demn and  purchase,  purchase,  acquire,  add  to,  maintain,  conduct  and 
operate  any  and  all  systems  of  ferries,  ferry  slips  and  docks,  rail  and 
water  transfer  and  terminal  facilities  within  or  without  the  limits  of 
the  city;    to  acquire  by  purchase  or  condemnation  an  adequate  water 
power  supply  and  site  and  to  construct,  operate  and  maintain  an  elec- 
tric power  and  light  plant  and  system  for  furnishing  power  and  light 
for  industrial,  individual  and  municipal  uses;  and  to  provide  and  secure 
payment  therefor  in  whole  or  in   part  by  net  earnings  therefrom,   or 
by  general  bonds  of  the  City  of  Seattle  bearing  interest  not  to  exceed 
five  per  cent  per  annum,  sold  to  the  highest  bidder  and  for  not  less  than 
par,  the  principal  of  which  shall  be  payable  serially  in  such  amounts  and 
at  such  times  as  may  be  agreed  upon  between  the  tenth  and  fortieth 
years  after  their  date  of  issuance,  or  by  any  ways  and  means  now  or 
hereafter  allowable  by  law,  and  to  do  anything  necessary  or  proper  in 
order  to  carry  out  the  foregoing  purpose;   Provided,  however,  That  no 
public  utility  shall  be  purchased,  acquired  or  constructed,  nor  any  addi- 
tions or  betterments  thereto  or  extensions  thereof  be  made,  for  which 
a  general  indebtedness  is  to  be  incurred  by  the  city,  unless  the  council 
shall  provide  therefor  by  ordinance,  which  shall  specify  and  adopt  the 
system  or  plan  proposed,  and  declare  the  estimated  cost  thereof,  as  near 
as  may  be,  nor  shall  any  public  utility  or  plant  be  sold  unless  the  coun- 
cil shall  provide  therefor  by  ordinance,  which  ordinance  shall  specify 
the  terms  and  conditions  of  any  such  sale,  and  neither  such  purchase 
nor  such  sale  shall  be  made  unless  the  same  shall  be  submitted  for 
ratification  or  rejection  to  the  qualified  voters  of  the  city  at  a  general 
or  special  election,  and  unless  such  proposition  shall  be  adopted  and 
assented  to  by  three-fifths   of  the  qualified  voters   of  the  city,  voting 
thereon  at  said  election.      (As  amended  March  ,5,  1912.) 

Sixteenth.      (As  amended  March  3, 1908.)     Establishment  and  Regula- 
tion of  Markets;   Regulation  of  Sale  of  Products,  and  of  Weights  and 


24  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IV. 

3Ieasures:- — To  establish  and  regulate  markets,  and  to  provide  for  the 
weighing,  measuring  and  inspection  of  all  commodities  offered  for  sale 
thereat,  or  at  any  other  place  within  the  city  limits;  to  enforce  the 
keeping  of  proper  legal  weights  and  measures  by  all  vendors  in  the 
city,  and  to  provide  for  the  inspection  thereof;  to  provide  by  ordinance 
for  the  erection  and  maintenance  of  city  scales  at  suitable  points  within 
the  city  limits;  the  weighing  thereon  of  such  commodities  as  the  city 
council  may  by  ordinance  designate,  and  to  require  the  delivery  to  the 
purchaser  of  an  official  certificate  of  the  weight  of  such  commodity  as 
shown  on  such  scales,  and  to  provide  proper  penalties  for  the  violation 
of  any  of  the  provisions  of  such  ordinances. 

Seventeenth.  (As  amended  March  5,  1912.)  Erection,  Establishment, 
Control  and  Keguiation  of  Hospitals  and  Sanitariums: — To  erect  and 
establish  hospitals,  sanitariums,  sanatoriums  and  isolation  hospitals 
and  to  control  and  regulate  the  same. 

Eighteenth.  Erection,  Establishment,  Control  and  Ke^ulation  of 
Jails;  Working-  of  Prisoners: — To  erect  and  establish  work-houses  and 
jails,  and  to  control  and  regulate  the  same,  and  to  provide  for  the  work- 
ing of  prisoners  confined  therein;  Provided,  That  no  prisoner  shall  be 
required  to  perform  any  labor  until  he  shall  have  been  duly  convicted 
of  some  offense  punishable  by  imprisonment,  and  duly  sentenced  thereto. 

Nineteenth.  Establishment  of  Reform  Schools: — To  provide  for 
establishing  and  maintaining  reform  or  training  schools  for  juvenile 
offenders. 

Twentieth.  Establishment,  3Iaintenance  and  Kegulation  of  Public 
Library: — To  provide  for  the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  a  public 
library  or  libraries,  and  to  appropriate  annually  such  percentum  of  all 
moneys  collected  for  fines,  penalties  and  licenses  as  shall  be  prescribed 
by  this  charter  for  the  support  of  a  city  library,  which  shall,  under  such 
regulations  as  shall  be  prescribed  by  ordinance,  be  open  for  use  by  the 
public. 

Twenty-first.  (As  amended  March  3,  1908.)  Reg-ulation  of  Burials 
and  Cemeteries: — To  regulate  the  burial  of  the  dead,  to  regulate  ceme- 
teries within  or  without  the  city  limits;  to  acquire  land  for  cemetery 
purposes  without  the  city  limits  by  purchase,  condemnation  or  other- 
wise; to  cause  cemeteries  to  be  removed  beyond  the  city  limits  and  to 
prohibit  the  establishment  of  any  cemetery  within  two  miles  of  the 
boundaries  of  the  city.  The  establishment  or  platting  of  new  cemeteries 
or  the  extension  of  existing  cemeteries  within  the  limits  of  the  City 
of  Seattle  is  hereby  prohibited. 

Twenty-second.  Regulation  of  Buildings  Used  for  Offensive  Occu- 
pations:— To  direct  the  location  and  construction  of  all  buildings  in 
which  any  trade  or  occupation  offensive  to  the  senses  or  deleterious  to 
the  public  health  or  safety  shall  be  carried  on,  and  to  regulate  the  man- 
agement thereof;  and  to  prohibit  the  erection  and  maintenance  of  such 
buildings  or  structures,  or  the  carrying  on  of  such  trades  or  occupations 


THE    LEGISLATIVE    DEPARTMENT.  25 

within  the  limits  of  the  city  or  within  the  distance  of  two  miles  beyond 
the  boundaries  thereof. 

Twenty-third.  Establish  Fire  Department;  Prevention  and  Extin- 
guishment of  Fires;  Regulation  of  Combustible  and  Explosive  Sub- 
stances:— To  make  regulations  for  the  prevention  of  accidents  by  fire, 
to  organize  and  establish  a  fire  department,  to  provide  fire  engines  and 
other  apparatus,  and  to  provide  for  the  prevention  and  extinguishment 
of  fires  and  to  regulate  or  prohibit  the  transportation,  keeping  or  storage 
of  all  combustible  or  explosive  materials  within  the  corporate  limits  of 
the  city,  and  to  restrain  and  regulate  and  prohibit  the  use  of  fireworks. 

Twenty-fourth.  Establishment  of  Fire  Limits  and  Regulation  of 
Buildings:— To  establish  fire  limits  and  enlarge  the  same  as  circum- 
stances may  require,  and  make  all  such  regulations  for  the  erection  and 
maintenance  of  buildings  or  other  structures  within  the  corporate  limits 
as  the  safety  of  persons  or  property  may  require,  and  to  cause  all  such 
buildings  and  places  as  may  from  any  cause  be  in  a  dangerous  state  to  be 
put  in  a  safe  condition,  and  to  prohibit  the  erection  or  construction 
within  such  fire  limits  of  any  building  or  structure  or  any  addition  to 
any  building  or  structure  unless  such  building,  structure  or  addition  be 
constructed  of  such  material  and  in  conformity  to  such  rules,  regulations 
and  conditions  as  the  city  council  shall  have  provided ;  and  to  provide  for 
the  remgval  of  any  building  or  structure  or  any  addition  to  any  building 
or  structure  erected  contrary  to  such  prohibition. 

Twenty-fifth.  Regulation  of  Erection  and  Maintenance  of  Build- 
ings and  Structures: — To  regulate  the  manner  in  which  stone,  brick  and 
other  buildings,  partj^  walls  and  partition  fences  shall  be  constructed 
and  maintained. 

Twenty-sixth.  Construction,  Improvement,  3Iaintenance,  Regula- 
tion and  Acquisition  of  Water  Ways: — To  provide  for  the  deepening, 
widening,  docking,  covering,  walling,  altering  or  changing  the  channels 
of  water-ways  and  water-courses,  and  to  provide  for  the  construction  and 
maintenance  of  canals,  slips,  public  landing  places,  wharves,  docks  and 
levees,  and  all  such  other  work  as  may  be  required  for  the  accommoda- 
tion of  commerce,  and  to  control  and  regulate  the  use  thereof;  and  fur- 
ther, to  provide  for  the  condemnation  of  all  such  work  or  works  by  the 
city  and  for  its  use  and  benefit;  and  for  the  construction  and  maintenance 
and  ownership  of  the  same  by  the  city. 

Twenty-seventh.  Regulation  of  Water  Craft: — To  control,  regulate 
and  prohibit  the  anchorage,  moorage  and  landing  of  all  water  craft  and 
their  cargoes  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  corporation. 

Twenty-eighth.     Fixing  and  Collection  of  Wharfage    and    Harbor 

Fees: — To  fix  the  rate  of  w^harfage,  storage  and  dockage,  and  to  provide 
for  the  collection  thereof,  and  to  provide  for  the  imposition  and  col- 
lection of  such  harbor  fees  as  may  be  consistent  with  the  laws  of  the 
United  States. 


26  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IV. 

Twenty-ninth.  Licensing  and  Eegulation  of  Boats:— To  license, 
regulate,  control  or  restrain  wharf-boats,  tugs  and  other  boats  used  about 
the  harbor  or  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  city. 

Thirtieth.  Kegulatlon  of  Public  Halls,  Water  Courses,  Ponds,  De- 
lilement  of  Streams,  Sources  of  Water  Supply,  Places  Dangerous  to 
Health,  Quarantine  and  Contagious  Diseases: — To  require  the  owners  of 
public  halls  or  other  buildings  to  provide  suitable  means  of  exit;  to  pro- 
vide for  the  prevention  and  abatement  of  nuisances;  for  the  cleaning 
VAid.  purification  of  water  courses  and  canals;  for  the  draining  and  filling 
up  of  pouds  on  private  property  within  its  limits,  when  the  same  shall  be 
offensive  to  the  senses  or  dangerous  to  health;  to  regulate  and  control 
and  iirovide  for  the  prevention  and  punishment  of  the  defilement  or 
pollution  of  all  streams  running  into  or  through  its  corporate  limits,  and 
for  the  distance  of  five  miles  beyond  its  corporate  limits,  and  of  any 
stream  or  lake  from  which  the  water  supply  of  said  city  is  or  may  be 
taktri,  for  a  distance  of  five  miles  beyond  its  source  of  supply;  to  provide 
for  the  cleaning  of  areas,  vaults  and  other  places  which  may  be  so  kept 
as  to  become  offensive  to  the  senses  or  dangerous  to  health;  and  to  make 
all  such  quarantine  and  other  regulations  as  may  be  necessary  for  the 
preservation  of  the  public  health;  and  to  remove  all  persons  afflicted 
with  any  infectious  or  contagious  disease  to  some  suitable  place  to  be 
provided  for  that  purpose. 

Thirty-first.  Abatement  and  Punishment  of  Nuisance: — To  de- 
clare what  shall  be  a  nuisance  and  to  proyide  for  the  abatement  of  the 
same,  and  for  the  punishment  of  any  person  or  party  who  may  create, 
continue  or  suffer  a  nuisance  to  exist. 

Thirty-second.  (As  amended  March  3,  1908.)  Licensing  and  Regula- 
tion of  Liquor  Traffic;  Limitations  and  Restrictions: — To  license,  tax, 
confine  within  limits  of  time  and  place  to  be  by  the  city  council  pre- 
scribed, and  to  otherwise  regulate  the  selling  or  giving  away  or  other 
disposal  of  intoxicating,  spirituous,  malt,  vinous,  mixed  or  fermented 
liquors,  and  the  collection  of  the  license  money  therefrom  for  the  use 
of  the  city;  Provided,  That  no  license  shall  be  granted  to  any  person 
or  persons  who  shall  not  first  comply  with  the  general  laws  of  the  state 
in  force  at  the  time  the  same  is  granted;  and  provided  further,  that  the 
power  of  the  city  council  shall  be  further  subject  to  the  limitations  and 
restrictions  hereinafter  set  forth. 

(a).  Saloon  Patrol  Districts;  Designation  of  Boundaries,  How 
Construed: — Hereafter  no  license  (except  a  wholesale  license  as  herein- 
after defined)  shall  be  granted  to  any  person  or  persons,  authorizing  the 
sale  or  giving  away  or  other  disposal  of  any  such  liquors  at  any  place 
within  the  limits  of  the  City  of  Seattle  outside  of  the  districts  hereinbelow 
designated  for  the  granting  of  licenses,  except  as  otherwise  specifically 
hereinbelow  provided.  The  city  council,  in  its  discretion,  subject  to  the 
limitations  herein  stated,  shall  have  authority  to  grant  such  licenses 
within  the  limits  of  the  three  saloon  patrol  districts  hereinbelow  de- 
scribed, it  being  understood  that  the  designation  of  any  street  in  defining 
the  boundary  of  any  of  the  districts  herein  contained  shall  be  taken  to 


THE    LEGISLATIVE    DEPARTMENT.  ■  27 

mean  and  include  within  tlie  district  premises  with  frontages  upon  either 
side  of  the  street  named,  but  when  a  specific  margin  of  any  boundary 
street  is  designated,  it  sliall  be  taken  to  mean  and  include  within  the 
district  only  frontages  upon  said  margin  of  said  street. 

Boundaries  of  Saloon  Patrol  District  Aumher  One: — Beginning  at 
the  intersection  of  First  Avenue  and  Wall  Street  and  running  thence 
easterly  on  Wall  Street  to  the  west  margin  of  the  alley  between  First  and 
Second  Avenues;  thence  southerly  on  the  west  margin  of  said  alley  to 
the  south  margin  of  Pine  Street;  thence  easterly  on  the  south  margin  of 
Pine  Street  to  the  west  margin  of  Third  Avenue;  thence  southerly  on 
the  west  margin  of  Third  Avenue  to  Pike  Street;  thence  easterly  on  Pike 
Street  to  Fifth  Avenue;  thence  southerly  on  the  west  margin  of  Fifth 
Avenue  to  a  point  seventy-five  (75)  feet  southerly  from  Pike  Street; 
thence  westerly,  parallel  with  and  seventy-five  (75)  feet  southerly  from 
Pike  Street  to  the  west  margin  of  the  alley  between  Third  and  Fourth 
Avenues;  thence  southerly  along  the  west  margin  of  said  alley  to  a  point 
sixty  (60)  feet  northerly  from  Union  Street;  thence  westerly,  parallel 
with  and  sixty  (60)  feet  northerly  from  Union  Street  to  a  point  sixty  (60) 
feet  westerly  from  Third  Avenue;  thence  southerly,  parallel  with  and 
sixty  (60)  feet  westerly  from  Third  Avenue  to  a  point  sixty  (60)  feet 
southerly  from  Union  Street;  thence  westerly,  parallel  with  and  sixty 
(60)  feet  southerly  from  Union  Street  to  the  west  margin  of  the  alley 
between  Second  and  Third  Avenues;  thence  southerly  along  the  west 
margin  of  said  alley  to  the  south  margin  of  Cherry  Street;  thence  easterly 
along  the  south  margin  of  Cherry  Street  to  Third  Avenue;  thence  south- 
erly along  Third  Avenue  to  Yesler  Way;  thence  east  along  Yesler  Way 
to  Fifth  Avenue  South;  thence  south  on  Fifth  Avenue  South  to  King 
Street;  thence  east  on  King  Street  to  Maynard  Avenue;  thence  south  on 
Maynard  Avenue  to  Lane  Street;  thence  east  on  Lane  Street  to  Seventh 
Avenue  South;  thence  south  on  Seventh  Avenue  South  to  Charles  Street; 
thence  east  on  Charles  Street  to  Eighth  Avenue  South;  thence  south  on 
Eighth  Avenue  South  to  the  point  of  intersection  of  the  east  margin  of 
Eighth  Avenue  South  with  the  west  margin  of  the  right-of-way  of  the 
Northern  Pacific  and  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  Railways;  thence  south- 
erly along  the  west  margin  of  said  right-of-way  to  the  north  side  of 
Nevada  (formerly  Rainier)  Street;  thence  west  along  the  north  side  of 
said  Nevada  Street  to  Eighth  Avenue  South;  thence  north  along  Eighth 
Avenue  South  to  Hanford  Street;  thence  westerly  along  Hanford  Street 
to  Sixth  Avenue  South;  thence  north  along  Sixth  Avenue  South  to  Hol- 
gate  Street;  thence  west  along  Holgate  Street  to  the  east  margin  of  Utah 
Street;  thence  north  on  the  east  margin  of  Utah  Street  to  Connecticut 
Street;  thence  west  on  Connecticut  Street  to  the  east  margin  of  Railroad 
Avenue;  thence  north  along  the  east  margin  of  Railroad  Avenue  to  Yes- 
ler Way  and  continuing  north  along  the  east  margin  of  Western  Avenue 
to  Columbia  Street;  thence  easterly  along  the  south  margin  of  Columbia 
Street  to  the  east  margin  of  Post  Street;  thence  northerly  along  the  east 
m.argin  of  Post  Street  to  a  point  one  hundred  twenty  (120)  feet  northerly 
from  Madison  Street;  thence  westerly,  parallel  with  and  one  hundred 
twenty  (120)  feet  northerly  from  Madison  Street  to  the  east  margin  of 


28  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IV. 

Railroad  Avenue;  thence  northerly  along  the  easterly  margin  of  Rail- 
road Avenue  to  Wall  Street;  thence  easterly  on  Wall  Street  to  First  Ave- 
nue and  the  place  of  beginning;  including  also  frontages  upon  both  sides 
of  First  Av'enue  from  Wall  Street  to  the  south  margin  of  Denny  Way; 
provided,  however,  that  premises  with  frontages  upon  Second  Avenue 
between  Pike  Street  and  Pine  Street,  and  premises  with  frontages  upon 
Jackson  Street  between  Third  Avenue  South  and  Fifth  Avenue  South 
shall  not  be  deemed  to  be  included  within  the  above  district. 

Boundaries  of  Saloon  Patrol  District  Number  Two  (Hallard) : — Bal- 
lard Avenue  and  one  hundred  (100)  feet  on  both  sides  thereof  from  the 
west  margin  of  Seventeenth  Avenue  Northwest  (formerly  First  Avenue 
West)  to  the  south  margin  of  the  street  platted  as  Jefferson  Place;  also 
a  strip  of  land  one  hundred  (100)  feet  wide  along  the  southwesterly  side 
of  Ballard  Avenue  extending  from  Jefferson  Place  to  the  northerly  mar- 
gin of  lot  eight  (8),  block  seventy-two  (72),  Gilman  Park  Addition. 

Boundaries  of  Saloon  Patrol  District  IVumber  Three  (South  Park) : 

— The  premises  for  which  a  license  existed  on  March  3,  1908,  at  the 
northwest  corner  of  Cloverdale  Street  and  Eighth  Avenue  South;  the 
premises  for  which  a  license  existed  on  March  3,  1908,  at  the  northwest 
corner  of  Caledonia  Street  and  Eighth  Avenue  South;  frontages  on  Val- 
ley Road  between  Orchard  and  Caledonia  Street;  the  premises  upon 
which  a  license  existed  on  March  3,  1908,  at  or  near  the  northeast  corner 
of  what  is  commonly  known  as  the  McNatt  Ranch,  within  the  limits  of 
the  former  municipality  of  South  Park,  now  a  part  of  the  City  of  Seattle. 

Boundaries  of  Saloon  Patrol  District  Number  Four  (Georgetown) : 

(As  adopted  March  5,  1912.) — Beginning  fifty  (50)  feet  west  on  Lucelle 
Street  from  the  intersection  of  Lucelle  Street  and  Duwamish  Avenue; 
thence  southerly  and  parallel  with  and  including  frontages  on  the  west 
side  of  Duwamish  Avenue  to  the  south  side  of  Vale  Street;  thence  west- 
erly on  Vale  Street  to  Twelfth  Avenue  South;  thence  southerly  on 
Twelfth  Avenue  South  to  the  north  margin  of  Harney  Street;  provided, 
however,  that  premises  with  frontages  on  Duwamish  Avenue  at  the 
northwest  corner  of  Duwamish  Avenue  and  Vega  Street;  and  premises 
with  frontage  at  7301  Duwamish  Avenue  shall  be  deemed  to  be  included 
within  the  above  number  four  district;  and  further  provided,  that  no 
license  shall  be  granted  to  the  location  at  7301  Duwamish  Avenue  which 
shall  extend  beyond  December  31,  1912. 

(b).  Limits  Hotel  Liquor  License  District: — The  city  council  in  its 
discretion,  subject  to  the  limitations  herein  stated,  shall  have  authority 
to  grant  licenses  for  the  sale  or  disposal  of  such  liquors  in  bona  fide 
commercial  hotels  within  the  limits  of  the  hotel  liquor  license  district 
described  as  follows,  to-wit: 

Boundaries  of  Hotel  Liquor  License  District: — The  territory  lying 
east  of  and  adjoining  Saloon  Patrol  District  Number  One,  particularly 
defined  as  follows:  Bounded  on  the  west  by  said  District  Number  One; 
on  the  north  by  the  south  margin  of  Denny  Way;  on  the  south  by  King 
Street  and  on  the  east  by  the  following,  to-wit:      The  west  margin  of 


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the  alley  between  Fourth  and  Fifth  Avenues  from  Denny  Way  southerly 
to  one  hundred  twenty  (120)  feet  north  of  Pine  Street;  thence  easterly 
parallel  with  Pine  Street  to  the  west  margin  of  the  alley  between  Sixth 
and  Seventh  Avenues;  thence  southerly  along  the  west  margin  of  said 
alley  to  Yesler  Way;  thence  east  to  the  west  margin  of  the  alley  between 
Maynard  Avenue  and  Seventh  Avenue  South;  thence  south  along  the 
west  margin  of  said  alley  to  King  Street.  Also  the  territory  lying  west 
of  and  adjoining  Saloon  Patrol  District  Number  One,  particularly  de- 
fined as  follows:  Bounded  on  the  north  by  a  line  parallel  with  and 
distant  one  hundred  twenty  (120)  feet  northerly  from  Madison  Street; 
on  the  west  by  the  easterly  margin  of  Railroad  Avenue;  on  the  south  by 
Yesler  Way,  and  on  the  east  by  said  Saloon  Patrol  District  Number  One. 
Also  all  premises  with  frontages  upon  Second  Avenue  between  Pike 
Street  and  Pine  Street  and  all  premises  with  frontages  upon  Jackson 
Street  between  Third  Avenue  South  and  Fifth  Avenue  South. 

Hotel  Liquor  Licenses;  Where  and  When  Granted: — The  authority 
to  grant  such  licenses  within  the  Hotel  Liquor  License  District  may  be 
exercised  by  the  City  Council  in  the  following  cases,  and  not  otherwise, 
namely:  Any  such  license  may  be  granted  only  for  a  bona  fide  commer- 
cial hotel,  in  which  adequate  and  general  provision  is  made  for  transient 
guests,  and  which  has  at  least  one  hundred  sleeping  rooms  in  use  for 
hotel  purposes,  all  under  a  single  management,  to  whom  the  license,  if 
granted,  shall  be  issued,  and  the  license  shall  distinctly  prescribe  and 
limit  the  sale  and  disposal  of- liquor  authorized  under  it  to  a  defined  room 
or  other  enclosed  portion  of  the  building,  having  no  frontage  upon  or 
direct  entrance  from  any  street  or  alley,  but  having  its  entrance  solely 
from  within  the  hotel,  and  there  shall  be  no  sign  or  other  advertisement 
or  designation  of  such  licensed  location  exposed  so  as  to  be  read  from 
any  street  or  alley.  Every  such  license  within  the  Hotel  Liquor  License 
District  shall  distinctly  specify  the  terms  and  restrictions  governing  and 
controlling  the  same. 

(c).  Main  Entrance  on  Alleys  Prohibited;  Exception: — Hereafter 
no  license  shall  be  granted  within  the  saloon  patrol  district  herein  de- 
scribed, except  that  part  of  District  Number  One  lying  along  and  east 
of  Sixth  Avenue  South  between  King  and  Hanford  Streets,  for  any 
premises  whereby  the  main  entrance  to  the  place  of  selling  or  disposing 
of  the   siquors  shall  be  on  any  alley. 

(d).  Existing  Saloons  With  Alley  Entrances: — The  foregoing  pro- 
visions are  subject  to  the  following  proviso:  That  wherever  there  was 
on  January  second,  1908,  any  valid  license  outstanding  and  in  actual  use 
for  premises  situated  outside  of  the  saloon  patrol  districts  herein  de- 
scribed, or  for  any  premises  whereby  the  main  entrance  is  upon  an  alley, 
such  licenses  shall  continue  in  force  (subject  to  the  right  of  the  city 
council  to  revoke  or  terminate  the  spme  at  any  time  as  provided  by  gen- 
eral laws  and  ordinances)  until  the  expiration  of  their  respective  terms, 
and  the  city  council  shall  have  the  same  discretion  as  in  other  cases  to 
continue  from  time  to  time  to  grant  licenses  for  the  precise  premises  so 
in  use  under  such  licenses,  or  any  of  them,  except  that  in  no  event  shall 


30  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IV. 

any  license  be  granted  or  continued  under  the  provisions  of  this  proviso 
for  any  term  or  time  which  shall  extend  beyond  December  thirty-first, 
1912. 

(e).  IVo  New  Saloons  Within  Thirty  Feet  of  Street  Corner;  Excep- 
tion:— Within  the  saloon  patrol  districts  herein  described,  except  that 
part  of  District  Number  One  lying  along  and  east  of  Sixth  Avenue  South, 
between  King  and  Hanford  Streets,  no  liquor  license  of  any  kind  shall 
hereafter  be  granted  for  any  premises  situated  within  thirty  (30)  feet 
of  a  street  corner  (meaning  by  corner  the  intersection  of  the  marginal 
lines  of  two  streets)  except  for  premises  for  which  valid  licenses  were 
outstanding  and  in  actual  use  on  January  second,  1908. 

(f).  Time  Limit  of  Existing-  Saloons  Within  Thirty  Feet  of  Certain 
Street  Corners;  Proviso  as  to  Basements: — No  liquor  license  of  any  kind 
shall  be  granted  or  continued  for  any  term  or  time  which  shall  extend 
beyond  December  thirty-first,  1912,  for  any  premises  situated  within 
thirty  (30)  feet  of  a  street  corner  (as  defined  above)  at  any  of  the  fol- 
lowing street  intersections,  namely.  Pike  Street  and  First  Avenue,  Pike 
Street  and  Second  Avenue,  Madison  Street  and  First  Avenue,  Madison 
Street  and  Second  Avenue,  James  Street  and  Second  Avenue,  James 
Street  and  Third  Avenue,  Yesler  Way  and  Second  Avenue;  Provided, 
that  this  restriction  shall  not  apply  to  any  basement  situated  at  any  of 
said  corners  whose  entrance  is  on  one  street  and  is  distant  at  least  sixty 
(60)  feet  from  the  corner,  such  basement  having  no  entrance,  window 
or  other  communication  with  the  other  street. 

(g).  Limit  of  Number  of  Saloons  in  any  Block: — Within  the  saloon 
patrol  districts  herein  described,  except  that  part  of  District  Number  One 
lying  along  and  east  of  Sixth  Avenue  South,  between  King  and  Hanford 
Streets,  no  license  shall  hereafter  be  granted  which  shall  make  the  num- 
ber of  licensed  places  situated  on  the  same  block  of  land  and  fronting  on 
the  same  street  exceed  two  (including  herein  basements  as  well  as  other 
premises  and  counting  all  kinds  of  liquor  licenses)  except  that  in  cases 
where  there  were  outstanding  on  January  second,  1908,  valid  licenses  for 
more  than  two  licensed  places  situated  on  the  same  block  of  land  and 
fronting  on  the  same  street,  the  city  council  shall  have  the  same  discre- 
tion as  in  other  cases  to  continue  to  grant  licenses  hereafter  for  the 
precise  premises  so  in  use  under  such  licenses;  Provided,  that  when  by 
reason  of  transfer  or  otherwise  any  premises  falling  within  the  fore- 
going exception  shall  be  abandoned  as  a  place  for  selling  such  liquors,  or 
be  used  for  other  purpose,  said  exception  shall  no  longer  apply  to  such 
premises. 

(h).  Limit  of  Aggregate  Number  of  Liquor  Licenses: — The  aggre- 
gate number  of  liquor  licenses  outstanding  in  the  city,  exclusive  of  hotel 
licenses  within  the  Hotel  Liquor  License  District,  and  exclusive  of  purely 
wholesale  licenses,  as  herein  defined,  shall  not  exceed  three  hundred  and 
fifteen  (315)  at  any  time  prior  to  December  thirty-first,  1912,  nor  there- 
after until  the  population  of  the  city  exceeds  five  hundred  thousand 
(500,000). 


THE    LEGISLATIVE    DEPARTMENT.  31 

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(i).  Licenses  Specific  as  to  (xrantee  and  Location;  Transfer  of 
Licenses: — Every  liquor  license  shall  be  specific,  both  as  to  the  person, 
firm  or  corporation  licensed  and  as  to  the  particular  premises  wliere 
the  same  is  to  be  used,  and  as  to  the  person  paying  for  the  same.  The 
city  council  may,  in  its  discretion,  consent  to  the  transfer  of  any  license 
as  to  person  or  location,  but  no  license  shall  be  transferred  to  any  loca- 
tion except  one  for  which  such  license  might  be  granted  under  these 
charter  provisions. 

(j).     Consent  of  Party  Paying-  for  License  Necessary  to  Transfer: — 

No  transfer  of  a  license,  either  as  to  person  or  location,  shall  be  allowed 
or  granted  without  the  written  consent  of  the  person  or  corporation  who 
has  paid  for  the  license,  or  his  or  its  assignee.  Such  person  or  corpora- 
tion shall  be  designated  in  the  application  for  the  license  or  in  an  assign- 
ment filed  with  the  city  clerk.  For  all  licenses  granted  and  in  force  at 
the  present  time  a  notice  of  such  deposit  may  be  given  in  writing  and 
filed  with  the  city  clerk  within  twenty  days  after  this  amendment  goes 
into  force  and  effect. 

(k).  Renewals  in  Name  of  Actual  Owner;  Who  to  be  Deemed 
Owner: — Every  grant  of  a  license  which  is  a  renewal  of  a  license  there- 
tofore existing  for  premises  theretofore  occupied  as  a  licensed  place  for 
selling  liquors  shall  be  made  in  the  name  of  the  actual  owner  of  the 
existing  license  or  with  the  written  consent  of  such  owner,  and  any  per- 
son paying  or  having  paid  the  license  fee  to  the  city  for  any  license  shall 
be  deemed  to  be  the  owner  of  the  same  for  the  purposes  of  this  clause 
and  the  last  preceding  clause. 

(1).  Change  of  Location  of  Saloons  Occupying  Leaseholds: — -Where 
at  any  time  before  December  thirty-first,  1912,  saloons  are  located  on 
any  street  such  locations  shall  be  known  as  saloon  locations,  and  the 
location  of  the  business  carried  on  therein  shall  not  be  altered  or  changed 
during  the  term  of  any  bona  fide  lease,  or  bona  fide  renewal  thereof, 
existing  at  the  time  of  the  expiration  of  any  license  unless  the  lease 
therefor  finally  expires  within  the  next  annual  license  period.  This 
restriction  may  be  waived  at  any  time  by  a  vote  of  two-thirds  of  the 
city  council.  This  clause  (1)  shall  expire  by  limitation  on  December 
thirty-first,  1912,  and  thereafter  shall  have  no  effect. 

(m).  Term  of  Licenses;  Amount  of  License  Fees: — No  liquor  li- 
cense shall  be  granted  for  a  longer  period  than  one  year.  The  sum  re- 
quired for  any  liquor  license  shall  in  no  case  be  less  than  one  thousand 
dollars  ($1,000)  per  year  except  that  licenses  for  the  selling  or  giving 
away  or  other  disposal  of  such  liquors  at  wholesale  only,  which  shall  be 
known  as  wholesale  licenses,  shall  in  no  case  be  less  than  four  hun- 
dred fifty  dollars  ($450)  per  year. 

AVliolesale  Licenses,  Sales  Authorized  Under: — A  wholesale  license 
shall  in  no  case  authorize  or  permit  the  sale,  giving  away  or  other  dis- 
posal of  liquor  where  the  same  or  any  part  thereof  is  to  be  consumed  on 
the  premises  where  sold  or  otherwise  disposed  of,  or  in  any  premises 
used  in  connection  therewith,  and  under  such  license  the  liquor  must 


32  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IV. 

be  sold,  given  away  or  disposed  of  in  quantities  of  not  less  than  one 
gallon,  if  within  any  of  the  saloon  patrol  districts,  and  in  quantities  of 
not  less  than  three  gallons,  if  outside  of  said  districts.  Wholesale  li- 
censes outside  of  said  saloon  patrol  districts  shall  not  be  granted  except 
to  manufacturers  of  liquors  or  bottlers  thereof. 

Amount  and  Collection  of  License  Fees;  No  Remission;  Bond  Re- 
quired:— The  sum  required  to  be  paid  for  any  liquor  license  shall  in 
no  case  be  less  than  the  amount  required  by  the  general  laws  of  the 
state  for  houses  or  business  of  like  character,  and  all  license  fees  shall 
be  collected  and  paid  into  the  city  treasury  before  the  issuance  of  the 
license,  and  no  remission  of  any  such  license  fee  shall  be  made  during 
the  period  for  which  it  is  granted;  and  the  bond  required  to  be  given 
by  keepers  or  proprietors  of  saloons  or  drinking  houses  shall  not  in 
any  case  be  fixed  at  less  than  two  thousand  dollars  ($2,000). 

(n).     Council  3Iay  Refuse  Licenses  and  Permission  to  Transfer: — 

Nothing  contained  in  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  amendment  shall  be 
construed  as  requiring  the  city  council  to  grant  any  license  wiiether  in 
renewal  of  a  previously  existing  license  or  otherwise  or  to  consent  to 
the  transfer  of  any  license. 

Thirty-third.  Granting  and  Revocation  of  Licenses;  Terms  of  Li- 
censes:— To  authorize  the  granting  of  licenses  for  any  lawful  purpose, 
and  to  fix  by  ordinance  the  amount  to  be  paid  therefor,  and  to  provide 
for  the  revoking  of  the  same;  Provided,  That  no  license  shall  be  granted 
to  continue  for  a  longer  period  than  one  year  from  the  date  thereof. 

Thirty-fourth.  Reg-ulation  of  Offensive  Occupations: — To  regulate 
the  carrying  on  within  the  corporate  limits  of  the  city  of  occupations 
which  are  of  such  nature  as  to  affect  the  public  health  or  good  order  of 
the  city,  or  to  disturb  the  public  peace,  and  which  are  not  prohibited  by 
law,  and  to  provide  for  the  punishment  of  all  persons  violating  such 
regulations  and  of  all  persons  who  knowingly  permit  tlie  same  to  be 
violated  in  any  building  or  upon  any  premises  owned  or  controlled  by 
them. 

Thirty-fifth.  Punishment  of  Disorderly  Persons: — To  restrain  and 
provide  for  the  punishment  of  vagrants,  mendicants,  prostitutes  and 
other  disorderly  persons. 

Thirty-sixth.  Preservation  of  Public  3Iorality,  Health,  Peace  and 
Good  Order: — To  provide  for  the  punishment  of  all  disorderly  conduct 
and  of  all  practicos  dangerous  to  public  safety  or  health,  and  to  make  all 
regulations  necessary  for  the  preservation  of  public  morality,  health, 
peace  and  good  order  within  its  limits,  and  to  provide  for  the  arrest,  trial 
and  punishment  of  all  persons  violating  any  ordinance  of  the  city;  but 
such  punishment  shall  in  no  case  exceed  the  punishment  provided  by  the 
laws  of  the  State  of  Washington  for  misdemeanors. 

Thirty-seventh.  (As  amended  March  5, 1912,  superseding  amendment  of 
March  6, 1906.)  Extension  and  Establishment  of  Streets  Over  Tide  Lands, 
and  Excavation  and  Use  Thereof  as  Public  Slips: — To  project  or  extend 


THE    LEGISLATIVE    DEPARTMENT.  33 

or  establish  streets  over  and  across  any  tide  lands  within  the  corporate 
limits  of  the  city  and  along  or  across  the  harbor  areas  of  the  city,  in 
such  manner  as  will  best  promote  the  interests  of  commerce,  and  to 
excavate  and  improve,  for  use  as  public  slips  or  wharves,  any  of  said 
streets,  and  to  use  all  or  any  portion  of  every  street  extending  to  or 
projecting  into  the  water  as  a  public  slip  or  wharf. 

Thirty-eighth.  Keg'ulatioii  of  Domestic  Animals  and  the  Keeping 
of  Dog's: — To  restrain  or  prevent  domestic  or  other  animals  from  run- 
ning at  large;  and  to  license,  tax,  regulate  and  restrain  the  keeping  of 
dogs  within  the  city  limits,  and  to  authorize  the  distraining,  impounding 
and  sale  of  said  domestic  and  other  animals  for  the  penalty  incurred 
and  costs  of  proceeding,  and  to  authorize  the  destruction  of  dogs  im- 
pounded for  want  of  license. 

Thirty-ninth.     Reg^iilation  of  Boilers  and  Electrical  Appliances: — 

To  regulate  and  prohibit  the  location  and  use  of  any  steam  boiler  or 
boilers  or  electric  plant  or  steam  pipes  or  electric  wires  or  any  kind  of 
power  generator  or  power  reservoir  or  plant,  or  conduits  now  known  or 
hereafter  to  be  invented. 

Fortieth.  Establishment  and  Abrogation  of  Offices: — To  ordain, 
establish,  modify  and  abrogate  from  time  to  time,  as  the  needs  of  the 
city  shall  require,  all  proper  offices  and  bureaus,  subordinate  and  auxil- 
iary to  the  departments  and  heads  thereof  constituted  by  this  charter, 
and  to  provide  for  the  conduct  and  government  of  such  offices  and  bu- 
reaus, and  the  appointment,  removal,  duties  and  compensation  of  officers 
and  bureaus,  and  the  appointment,  removal,  duties  and  compensation  of 
officers  to  fill  the  same,  except  as  in  this  charter  otherwise  provided. 

Forty-first.  Amendment  and  Repeal  of  Ordinances: — To  alter, 
amend  and  repeal  any  ordinance  or  ordinances  or  parts  thereof  of  the 
city,     f^ee  Sec.  1,  Art.  IV.) 

Forty-second.  Execution  of  Vested  Powers: — To  make  all  rules 
and  regulations  necessary  or  proper  to  carry  into  execution  all  powers 
vested  by  this  charter,  or  by  law,  in  the  city,  or  in  any  department  or 
officer  thereof,  except  as  in  this  charter  otherwise  provided. 

Forty-third.  (As  adopted  March  3,  1908.)  Planting  of  Trees: — The 
city  council  may  order  the  planting  of  shade  or  ornamental  trees  on  or 
along  each  or  either  side  of  the  streets  of  the  city,  and  may  provide  for 
defraying  the  whole  or  any  portion  of  the  cost  and  expense  thereof  by  the 
collection  of  special  assessments  upon  the  property  specially  benefited 
thereby,  in  the  same  manner  as  is  provided  for  other  improvements  of 
streets,  alleys,  lanes,  squares  or  public  places  of  the  city,  under  this 
charter  and  the  laws  of  the  State  of  Washington. 

Sec.  19.  (xeneral  Legislative  Powers  of  Council: — The  city  council 
shall,  in  addition  to  the  powers  enumerated  in  the  last  foregoing  section, 
have  all  other  powers  usually  exercised  by  the  legislative  bodies  of 
municipal  corporations  of  like  character  and  degree  with  the  City  of 
Seattle,  and  all  powers  which  now  are  or  may  hereafter  be  conferred 
upon  incorporated  towns  and  cities  by  the  laws  of  this  state. 


34  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IV. 

Sec.  20.  Franchises,  How  Granted,  Repealed,  Amended  or  3Iodi- 
fied: — Every  grant  of  a  franchise,  right  or  privilege  shall  be  subject  to 
the  right  of  the  city  council,  or  the  people  of  the  city  acting  for  them- 
selves by  the  initiative  and  referendum,  at  any  time  subsequent  to  the 
grant,  to  repeal,  amend  or  modify  the  said  grant  with  due  regard  to  the 
rights  of  the  grantee  and  the  interest  of  the  public;  and  to  cancel,  forfeit 
and  abrogate  any  such  grant  if  the  franchise  granted  thereby  is  not 
operated  in  full  accordance  with  its  provisions-,  or  at  all;  and  at  any 
time  during  the  grant  to  acquire,  by  purchase  or  condemnation,  for  the 
use  of  the  city  itself,  all  the  property  of  the  grantee  within  the  limits 
of  the  public  streets,  at  a  fair  and  just  value,  which  shall  not  include  any 
valuation  of  the  franchise  itself,  which  shall  thereupon  terminate;  and 
every  ordinance  making  any  such  grant  shall  contain  a  reservation  of 
these  rights  of  the  city  council,  and  of  the  people  of  the  city  acting  for 
themselves  by  the  initiative  and  referendum,  to  so  repeal,  amend  or 
modify  said  ordinance,  and  to  so  cancel,  forfeit  and  abrogate  the  grant, 
and  to  so  acquire  the  property  of  the  grantee  in  the  public  streets,  as 
hereinabove  set  forth.  The  city  council  shall  not  consider  or  grant  any 
application  for  extension  of  the  period  of  any  franchise,  nor  any  new 
franchise  covering  all  or  any  substantial  part  of  the  rights  or  privileges 
of  any  existing  franchise,  until  within  three  years  of  the  expiration  of 
the  existing  grant,  and  then  only  after  submission  to  and  approval  by 
majority  vote  of  the  qualified  electors. 

Limitations  and  3[etliods  of  Granting^  Franchise: — The  city  council 
shall  not  grant  authority  to  construct  a  street  railway,  or  lay  down  street 
railway  tracks  along,  upon,  over  or  under  any  of  the  streets  of  the 
city,  except  in  manner  and  on  the  terms  following:  Upon  the  applica- 
tion being  made  to  the  city  council  for  authority  to  construct  and  operate 
a  street  railway  along,  upon,  over  or  under  any  of  said  streets,  the  city 
council  shall  by  resolution  determine  whether  such  franchise,  or  any 
part  thereof,  shall  be  granted,  and  after  such  determination  shall  cause 
notice  of  such  application  and  resolution  to  be  published  for  ten  days  in 
the  city  ollicial  newspaper,  at  the  expense  of  the  applicant.  Such  reso- 
lution and  notice  shall  specify  the  route  or  routes  over  and  along  which 
it  proposes  to  grant  such  franchise,  the  period  for  which  it  is  proposed  to 
be  granted,  and  shall  further  specify  all  the  terms  and  conditions  thereof, 
Including  maximum  rates  of  fare,  by  cash  and  tickets,  the  transfer  regu- 
lations prescribed  and  the  annual  percentage  of  gross  receipts  required 
to  be  paid  into  the  city  treasury.  If  the  application  be  made  by,  or  di- 
rectly or  indirectly  in  behalf  of  the  grantee,  or  owner  of  any  existing 
street  railway  system,  or  the  route  or  routes  asked  for  are  such  as  con- 
stitute a  virtual  extension  or  connection  with  any  existing  system,  even 
though  there  be  no  apparent  identity  of  ownership,  or  probable  com- 
munity- of  interest,  in  any  such  case  the  franchise  shall  be  granted  only 
for  a  term  equal  to  the  unexpired  franchise  of  the  existing  system  with 
which  the  new  line  is  proposed  to,  or  can  be  conveniently  connected, 
and  transfer  arrangements  shall  be  stipulated  in  the  grant.  Common 
user  trackage  facilities  and  appurtenances  shall  be  required  in  all  fran- 
chises on  any  route,  to  be  made  available  for  other  franchise  grantees 


THE    LEGISLATIVE    DEPARTMENT.  35 

and  for  the  city  itself  at  any  time  during  tlie  grant,  upon  contribution 
of  a  fair  proportion  of  the  cost  and  maintenance  expense,  not  including 
any  franchise  valuation  allowance,  and  if  the  compensation  for  such 
common  user  can  not  be  agreed  voluntarily  between  respective  grantees, 
or  the  city  itself,  it  shall  be  fixed  by  arbitration,  each  party  appointing 
one  arbitrator,  and  if  the  two  fail  to  agree,  they  shall  appoint  a  third, 
and  the  result  of  such  arbitration  shall  be  binding  upon  the  parties.  It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  council  to  incorporate  in  every  such  fran- 
chise efficient  provisions  for  the  compulsory  arbitration  of  all  disputes 
which  may  arise  between  the  grantee  or  his  successors  or  assigns,  and 
his,  its,  or  their  employees,  as  to  any  matter  of  employment  or  wages. 
The  proposed  franchise  shall  further  contain  all  other  reservations  and 
limitations  set  forth  in  this  charter  and  the  laws  of  the  state. 

Francliise  Must  be  Advertised  for  Bid;  How  Awarded;  Referendum 
Petition  and  Vote: — The  proposed  franchise  shall  thereupon  be  offered 
and  advertised  for  bids  to  ascertain  the  person,  company,  or  corporation 
who  will  accept,  construct  and  operate  under  said  franchise  at  the  lowest 
rates  of  fare,  to  be  substituted  in  lieu  of  the  maximum  rates  set  forth 
in  the  resolution.  Bidding  for  the  franchise  shall  be  in  accordance  with 
provisions  of  this  charter  in  relation  to  bids  made  to  the  board  of  public 
works,  so  far  as  such  provisions  may  be  applicable,  and  the  city  council 
may  reject  any  and  all  bids  and  may  refuse  to  grant  a  franchise  for  all 
or  any  part  of  the  route  for  which  application  was  made.  Each  bid  must 
be  accompanied  by  a  certified  check  payable  to  the  city  comptroller  for 
the  sum  of  one  thousand  ($1,000.00)  dollars,  and  the  amount  of  the 
check  shall  be  forfeited  and  paid  to  the  city  in  case  the  successful  bidder 
shall  fail  to  accept  the  franchise,  and  upon  acceptance,  the  sum  so  paid 
shall  be  credited  to  the  grantee  on  account  of  percentages.  The  city 
council  shall  consider  the  bids,  and  with  due  regard  to  cash  and  ticket 
fares,  transfer  regulations  and  connections,  shall  decide  and  designate 
the  bidder  whose  proposal  offers  the  lowest  fares  to  the  people,  not  ex- 
ceeding the  maximum  rates  named  in  the  resolution.  Thereupon,  if  the 
proposed  franchise  be  for  any  new  system,  or  includes  any  business 
thoroughfares  or  any  trunk  line  or  canyon  route  upon  which  no  tracks 
have  been  laid  under  any  previous  franchise,  then  the  said  franchise 
shall  be  submitted  to  the  vote  of  the  qualified  electors  at  the  next  en- 
suing general  municipal  election  for  their  ratification  or  rejection.  If 
the  designated  best  bidder  shall  offer  and  provide  the  expense  of  a  spe- 
cial election,  the  city  council  may  authorize  the  vote  to  be  taken  at  a 
special  election.  If  the  proposed  franchise  be  for  an  extension  of  an 
existing  system  in  a  residence  district  and  does  not  include  any  trunk 
line  or  canyon  route,  the  franchise  shall  not  be  submitted  to  referendum 
unless  the  city  council  shall  so  direct,  or  a  referendum  petition  signed 
by  a  number  of  qualified  voters  equal  to  not  less  than  eight  (8)  per  cent 
of  the  total  vote  cast  for  the  office  of  mayor  at  the  last  preceding  munici- 
pal election,  be  filed  with  the  city  comptroller,  within  thirty  (30)  days 
after  the  official  publication  of  the  designation  of  the  best  bidder  for 
the  proposed  franchise,  and  during  said  period  of  thirty  (30)  days  the 
franchise  shall  be  in  abeyance.  If  no  referendum  petition  be  filed,  the 
city  council  may  finally  pass  the  ordinance  and   grant  the   franchise, 


36  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IV. 

subject  to  action  by  the  mayor  as  in  the  case  of  other  ordinances.  If  a 
referendum  petition  be  filed  the  franchise  shall  be  submitted  to  vote  of 
the  qualified  electors  at  the  next  general  election,  or  at  a  special  elec- 
tion, if  the  proposed  grantee  shall  offer  and  provide  the  expense  thereof, 
and  the  city  council  shall  authorize  the  same.  Official  publication, 
notices  of  election,  conduct  and  manner  of  elections,  preparation  of 
official  ballots,  counting  and  canvassing  of  votes,  and  certifying  of  re- 
turns of  any  election  on  the  granting  of  a  franchise  shall  be  done 
substantially  as  is  provided  for  the  submission  to  vote  of  the  people  on 
amendments  to  the  city  charter.  If  the  proposed  franchise  ordinance 
receives  in  its  favor  a  majority  of  all  the  votes  cast  for  and  against  the 
same,  it  shall  be  deemed  to  be  ratified,  and  the  city  council  may  there- 
upon finally  pass  and  adopt  the  same.  If  it  fail  to  receive  said  majority 
in  its  favor,  the  franchise  ordinance  shall  be  deemed  rejected  and  no 
further  proceedings  shall  be  had  thereunder.  The  same  methods  of 
procedure  shall  obtain  in  the  extension  of  any  existing  franchises,  or 
any  rights  thereunder,  as  in  the  grant  of  a  new  franchise.  No  street 
railway  franchise  shall  in  any  event  be  granted,  extended  or  renewed 
to  any  date  beyond  December  31st,  1934. 

3Iiiiority  of  Council  3Iay  Invoke  Keferendum  Yote:^ — A  minority  of 
the  city  council,  including  not  less  than  one-third  of  all  the  members 
elected,  shall  have  the  right  and  power  to  invoke  a  referendum  vote  on 
a  franchise  ordinance  without  the  filing  of  any  petition  therefor. 

Repealing-  Clause: — The  provisions  of  Section  23,  Article  IV.  of  the 
Charter,  being  in  conflict  with  the  provisions  of  this  section,  are  hereby 
superseded.     (As  amended  Alarch  3,  1908.     Cf.  Am.  1906.) 

Sec.  21.  Wharf  Franchises,  How  Granted;  Conditions: — The  city 
council  shall  not  grant  any  franchise  for  the  construction  of  any  wharf 
into  any  bay,  lake  or  other  body  of  water,  except  in  the  manner  follow- 
ing, that  is  to  say:  In  addition  to  the  requirements  under  the  general 
laws,  each  and  every  ordinance  granting  such  franchise  must  receive 
the  vote  of  at  least  two-thirds  of  all  the  members  elected,  and  shall  pro- 
vide that  work  shall  commence  within  six  months  and  be  prosecuted 
continuously  and  shall  be  completed  within  one  year  thereafter.  Said 
time  shall  not  be  extended  for  any  cause,  and  unless  so  completed  the 
franchise  shall  be  forfeited. 

Sec.  22.  Exclusive  Franchises  Prohibited: — No  exclusive  franchise 
or  privilege  shall  be  granted  for  the  use  of  any  street,  alley  or  highway 
or  other  public  place  or  any  part  thereof. 

Sec.   23.     (Superseded  by  Amendment  to  Sec.  20,  supra.) 

Sec.  24.     Appr<4»rlati<>ns    for    Certain    Purposes    Prohibited: — The 

city  council  shall  make  no  appropriation  in  aid  of  any  corporation,  per- 
son or  society,  unless  expressly  authorized  by  this  charter  or  the  laws 
of  the  state. 

Sec.  25.  Temporary  Loans: — The  city  council,  after  the  taxes  have 
been  levied  in  any  year,  shall  have  power  to  make  temporary  loans  in 
anticipation  of  the  collection  of  such  taxes,  such  loans  to  be  applied  to 


THE    LEGISLATIVE    DEPARTMENT.  37 

the  purposes  for  which  such  taxes  have  been  levied  and  to  no  other  pur- 
pose, and  such  taxes  shall  be  inviolably  applied  to  pay  such  loans. 

Sec.  26.  Bonded  Indebtedness,  How  Created;  Payment  of  Interest; 
Sinking'  Fund;  Funding-  Bonds: — When  loans  shall  be  created  exceeding 
one  and  a  half  percentum  of  the  taxable  property  in  the  city,  and  bonds 
therefor  issued  by  the  city  under  this  charter,  the  city  council  in  author- 
izing and  providing  for  the  same  shall  direct  the  times  and  manner  of 
payment  and  rates  of  interest,  but  no  such  bonds  shall  be  issued  except 
as  provided  by  law,  nor  unless  the  proposition  for  creating  such  indebt- 
edness shall  have  been  previously  submitted  to  the  electors  of  the  city 
at  a  regular,  general  or  special  election,  of  which  thirty  days'  notice 
shall  have  been  published  in  the  city  official  newspaper,  and  such  propo- 
sition shall  have  then  received  the  assent  of  three-fifths  of  the  voters 
voting  at  such  election.  The  mode  and  manner  of  submitting  such  pro- 
position to  the  voters  shall  be  prescribed  by  ordinance.  And  in  case 
such  three-fifths  of  the  voters  are  in  favor  of  such  loan  the  city  council 
may,  after  such  election,  by  ordinance  confirm  the  loan;  but  no  bonds 
shall  be  issued  therefor  until  after  such  confirmation,  nor  until  the  city 
council  shall  have  made  specific  provision  for  payment  annually  of 
interest  on  such  bonds  and  for  a  fund  to  pay  the  interest  on  such  bonds 
and  a  sinking  fund  to  be  raised  by  annual  tax  at  least  five  years  before 
the  bonds  are  due,  sufficient  to  pay  and  discharge  such  bonds  at  maturity, 
and  the  faith  of  the  city  shall  be  and  is  hereby  pledged  for  the  final  pay- 
ment of  any  and  all  such  loans.  The  city  council  may  refund  any  funded 
indebtedness  at  such  times  and  upon  such  terms  as  they  may  see  fit; 
Provided,  That  the  rate  of  interest  upon  such  refunded  bonds  shall  never 
exceed  that  of  the  bonds  to  pay  which  they  were  issued. 

Sec.  27.     Ordinances  Creating*  Debt  to  Specify  Amount  and  Object: 

— No  debt  or  obligation  of  any  kind  against  the  city  shall  be  created  by 
the  city  council  except  by  ordinance  specifying  the  amount  and  object 
of  such  expenditure. 

Sec.  28.     Allowance  or  Payment  of  Invalid  Claims   Prohibited:— 

Neither  the  city  council  nor  any  officer,  board,  department  or  authority 
shall  allow,  make  valid  or  in  any  manner  recognize  any  demand  against 
the  city  which  was  not  at  the  time  of  its  creation  a  valid  claim  against 
the  same,  nor  shall  they  or  any  of  them  ever  allow  or  authorize  to  be 
paid  any  demand  which,  without  such  action,  would  be  invalid,  or 
which  shall  then  be  barred  by  any  statutes  of  limitation,  or  for  which 
the  city  was  never  liable,  and  any  such  action  shall  be  void. 

Sec.  29.  Claims  for  Damages,  When  and  How  Presented: — All  claims 
for  damages  against  the  city  must  be  presented  to  the  city  council  and 
filed  with  the  clerk  within  thirty  days  after  the  time  when  such  claim 
for  damages  accrued,  and  no  ordinance  shall  be  passed  allowing  any 
such  claim  or  any  part  thereof,  or  appropriating  money  or  other  prop- 
erty to  pay  or  satisfy  the  same  or  any  part  thereof,  until  such  claim  has 
first  been  referred  to  the  proper  department,  nor  until  such  department 
has  made  its  report  to  the  city  council  thereon,  pursuant  to  such  refer- 
ence.    All  such  claims  for  damages  must  accurately  locate  and  describe 


38  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IV. 

the  defect  that  caused  the  injury,  accurately  describe  the  injury,  give  the 
residence  for  one  year  last  past  of  claimant,  contain  the  items  of  dam- 
ages claimed,  and  be  sworn  to  by  the  claimant.  No  action  shall  be  main- 
tained against  the  city  for  any  claim  for  damages  until  the  same  has 
been  presented  to  the  city  council  and  sixty  days  have  elapsed  after  such 
presentation.      (As  amended  March  8,  1904.     Gf-  Am.  1902.) 

Sec.  30.     Ordinances  31ust  Provide  Penalties  for  Violations: — The 

city  council  shall  in  every  ordinance  prohibiting  or  requiring  any  act  or 
omission,  impose  a  penalty  for  the  violation  thereof  or  non-compliance 
therewith. 

Sec.  31.  City  Official  Newspaper,  How  Designated  s — A  daily  news- 
paper of  general  circulation  and  published  in  the  city,  to  be  styled  "City 
Official  Newspaper,"  shall  be  designated  in  the  following  manner:  The 
board  of  public  works  shall  on  the  first  Monday  in  August  in  each  year, 
cause  to  be  published  for  ten  (10)  consecutive  days,  excluding  Sundays, 
in  the  city  official  newspaper,  a  call  to  the  owners  and  managers  of 
newspapers  for  sealed  proposals  to  do  the  city  printing  for  the  then  next 
ensuing  fiscal  year,  each  of  which  proposals  shall  be  accompanied  by  a 
certified  check  upon  some  bank  in  the  city  in  the  sum  of  two  thousand 
five  hundred  ($2,500)  dollars,  payable  to  the  order  of  the  city  treasurer, 
and  shall  with  such  certified  check  be  delivered  to  the  secretary  of  the 
board  of  public  works  sealed  up  in  an  envelope,  indorsed  "Sealed  pro- 
posal and  check  for  city  printing,"  on  or  before  the  twentieth  (20th) 
day  next  after  the  first  publication  of  such  call,  and  shall  be  indorsed 
by  such  secretary  of  the  board  of  public  works  at  the  time  of  such  de- 
livery, with  the  date  of  his  reception  thereof,  and  shall  be  first  opened 
by  the  board  of  public  works  as  early  as  may  be  at  its  next  regular 
session  thereafter,  and  thereupon  the  board  of  public  works  shall  an- 
nounce the  names  of  all  parties  whose  proposals  have  been  offered,  and 
the  terms  of  their  proposals  respectively,  and  designate  as  city  official 
newspaper  that  paper  whose  manager  or  owner  has  offered  the  lowest 
bid,  with  certified  check  as  afoiresaid,  and  such  newspaper,  upon  com- 
plying with  the  requirements  hereof,  shall  at  the  beginning  of  the  then 
next  ensuing  fiscal  year,  and  during  said  years,  be  such  city  official  news- 
paper; Provided,  however,  if  in  the  opinion  of  said  board  all  bids  are 
too  high,  said  board  may,  without  any  hearing  thereon,  reject  all  bids 
and  shall  within  five  (5)  days  readvertise.  Within  five  (5)  days  from 
the  day  on  which  the  board  shall  have  designated  the  city  official  news- 
paper, such  newspaper  shall  present  to  and  file  with  the  city  clerk  a  con- 
tract and  agreement  duly  executed  by  its  owner  or  owners  or  proper 
officer  or  officers,  approved  by  the  corporation  counsel,  to  the  effect  that 
in  consideration  of  the  awarding  to  it  of  the  city  printing  for  the  then 
next  ensuing  fiscal  year,  it  promises  and  agrees  during  the  whole  of  said 
fiscal  year,  for  the  sum  or  sums  named  in  its  proposal,  to  well,  season- 
ably and  faithfully,  accurately  print  and  publish,  according  to  law.  all 
and  singular  the  matters  and  things  required  by  law  to  be  published  in 
the  city  official  newspaper  of  the  City  of  Seattle,  which  contract  and 
agreement  shall  be  accompanied  by  a  bond  of  an  approved  surety  com- 
pany authorized  to  do  business  in  and  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of 


THE    LEGISLATIVE    DEPARTMENT  39 

Washington,  in  the  sum  of  five  thousand  ($5,000)  dollars,  running  to  the 
City  of  Seattle,  approved  by  the  comptroller  and  corporation  counsel, 
conditioned  that  said  newspaper  and  its  owner  or  owners  will  do  and 
perform  each  and  every  of  l^he  things  required  to  be  set  forth  in  said 
contract  and  agreement;  Provided,  That  whenever  from  any  cause  a 
city  official  newspaper  shall  be  lacking,  the  mayor  shall  designate  and 
employ  a  like  newspaper  to  serve  as  such  until  designation  and  qualifi- 
cation is  made  and  had  as  above  directed  under  like  contract  and  bond 
(except  as  to  price),  for  reasonable  compensation,  to  be  audited  by  the 
auditing  committee.  Certified  checks  accompanying  unsuccessful  pro- 
posals shall  be  returned  to  the  proposers.  The  certified  check  accom- 
panying the  successful  proposal  shall  be  returned  to  such  proposer  upon 
the  filing  within  the  time  and  in  the  manner  designated  of  the  contract 
and  bond  required.  If  the  successful  proposer  or  newspaper  designated 
as  city  official  newspaper,  for  any  reason  fail,  neglect  or  refuse  to  prop- 
erly execute  and  file  the  contract  and  bond  required  within  the  time  and 
in  the  manner  designated,  the  certified  check  accompanying  his  or  its 
proposals  shall  immediately  become  forfeited,  and  be  and  become  the 
property  and  money  of  the  City  of  Seattle.  All  ordinances,  resolutions, 
notices,  tax  and  assessment  sales,  and  all  other  proceedings,  statements, 
matters  and  things  of  the  mayor,  city  council  or  any  department  or 
board  or  other  officer  or  functionary  of  the  city,  which  by  this  charter 
are  or  shall  be  required  to  be  published,  except  the  statement  prescribed 
in  section  32  of  this  article,  shall  be  published  in  the  city  official  news- 
paper, but  not  for  more  than  three  consecutive  issues,  except  as  other- 
wise in  this  charter  provided.      (As  amended  March  J,  VMS.     t'f.  A}ii.  1904.) 

Sec.  32.  Publication  of  Biennial  Statements  of  Kevenue  and  Ex- 
pense:— The  city  council  shall  biennially  and  not  less  than  twenty  (20) 
nor  more  than  sixty  (60)  days  before  the  biennial  election,  cause  to  be 
printed  in  pamphlet  form  for  distribution  to  citizens  applying  therefor, 
a  full  and  intelligible  statement  of  all  the  revenue  and  expense  of  every 
description  for  the  two  (2)  preceding  fiscal  years,  ending  on  the  thirty- 
first  day  of  December  next  preceding  such  statement,  including  all  the 
moneys  which  have  passed  through  the  hands  of  the  treasurer  for  any 
purpose  whatever,  together  with  the  different  sources  of  city  revenue, 
the  amount  received  from  each,  the  several  appropriations  made  by  the 
city  council,  the  objects  for  which  the  same  were  made  and  the  sums 
expended  for  each,  and  any  money  borrowed  upon  the  credit  of  the  city, 
whether  by  temporary  loans  or  by  the  issue  of  bonds,  the  terms  upon 
which  it  was  obtained,  the  authority  under  which  it  was  borrowed,  and 
the  purpose  to  which  it  was  applied,  and  how  much  of  the  same  or  other 
city  indebtedness  has  been  repaid  and  by  what  means.  The  statement 
shall  also  include  a  detailed  account  of  city  property,  personal  and  real, 
its  estimated  value,  and,  if  rented,  to  whom  and  on  what  terms,  and  of 
existing  debts  of  every  description,  and  of  the  condition  of  the  sinking 
funds,  if  any,  with  all  other  information  necessary  for  a  full  understand- 
ing of  the  financial  concerns  of  the  city.  Not  more  than  two  thousand 
copies  of  any  such  pamphlet  shall  be  printed.  (As  amended  March  3, 
1908.) 


40  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    V. 

Sec.  33.  Ordinances  Continued  in  Force: — All  ordinances  in  force 
in  the  city  at  the  date  of  the  adoption  of  this  charter,  and  not  incon- 
sistent therewith,  shall  remain  in  force  until  repealed  or  until  they 
expire  by  limitation. 

ARTICLE  V. 

THE  EXECUTIVE  DEPARTMENT. 

Section  1.  Qualifications  of  Mayor: — The  chief  executive  officer  of 
the  city  shall  be  a  mayor.  He  shall  be  at  least  thirty  years  of  age,  a 
citizen  of  the  United  States  and  of  the  State  of  Washington,  and  a  quali- 
fied elector  of  the  City  of  Seattle  at  the  time  of  his  election,  and  shall 
have  been  a  citizen  and  taxpayer  of  the  city  for  at  least  four  years  before 
the  day  of  his  election. 

Sec.  2.  Power  and  Duties  of  Mayor: — The  mayor  shall  see  that  all 
the  laws  and  ordinances  in  force  in  the  city  are  faithfully  executed,  and 
shall  direct  and  control  all  subordinate  officers  of  the  city,  except  in  so 
far  as  such  direction  and  control  is  by  the  provisions  of  this  charter 
reposed  in  some  other  officer  or  board,  and  shall  maintain  peace  and 
good  order  in  the  city.  He  shall  have  power  at  all  times,  in  any 
emergency,  of  which  he  shall  be  the  judge,  to  assume  command  of  the 
whole  or  any  part  of  the  police  force  of  the  city.  Ii^  case  of  riot,  tumult, 
or  violent  disturbance  of  the  public  order,  the  mayor  shall  have,  as  the 
exigency  in  his  judgment  may  require,  the  right  to  assume  control  for 
the  time  being  of  the  police  force,  but  before  assuming  such  control  he 
shall  issue  his  proclamation  to  that  effect,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
chief  of  police  to  execute  orders  promulgated  by  him  for  the  suppression 
of  such  tumult  and  the  restoration  of  order. 

Sec.  3.  Male  Inhabitants  to  Aid  in  Enforcing"  Law:  May  be  Pun- 
ished for  Refusal  or  Neglect: — The  mayor  is  enipov/ered  to  call  on  every 
male  inhabitant  of  the  city  over  the  age  of  eighteen  years  to  aid  in 
enforcing  the  laws  and  ordinances  in  force  in  the  city,  in  preventing 
and  extinguishing  fires,  and  in  preserving  the  peace  and  safety  of  the 
city.  The  city  council  shall  have  power  to  enact  an  ordinance  or  ordi- 
nances providing  for  the  punishment  of  any  such  person  as  the  mayor 
has  a  right  to  call  upon  as  aforesaid,  for  wilfully  refusing  or  neglecting 
to  obey  any  such  order  or  call. 

Sec.  4.     Mayor  With  Consent  of  Council  to  Appoint  Officers: — In 

the  absence  of  any  express  provision  in  this  charter  as  to  the  manner 
of  electing  or  appointing  any  officer,  the  mayor  shall  nominate,  and 
with  the  consent  of  the  city  council,  appoint  sucli  officer  as  is  provided 
for  herein  and  any  ordinance  enacted  in  pursuance  thereof. 

Sec.  5.  If  Appointment  Not  Confirmed  Mayor  May  Nominate  An- 
other; Council  to  Elect  if  Mayor  Fails  to  Nominate: — If  the  city  council 
shall  refuse  to  confirm  any  nomination  of  the  mayor,  tlien  he  shall  with- 
in ten  days  thereafter  nominate  another  person  to  fill  the  office,  and  he 
may  continue  to  nominate  until  his  nominee  is  confirmed.  If  the  mayor 
fails  to  make  another  nomination  within  ten  days  from  the  rejection 
of  a  nomination  for  the  same  office,  then  the  city  council  shall  elect  a 
suitable  person  to  fill  the  office  during  the  term. 


THE    EXECUTIVE    DEPARTMENT.  41 

Sec.  6.  Vacancies  Occasioned  by  Removal,  How  Filed: — When- 
ever the  mayor  shall  remove  an  appointive  officer,  the  vacancy  for  the 
unexpired  term  shall  be  filled  by  appointment  in  the  same  manner  as  if 
at  the  beginning  of  the  term,  except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this 
charter. 

Sec.  7.     3Iayor^s  Annual  3Iessage  to  Council;  Special  3Iessages: — 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  mayor  annually  at  the  first  meeting  after  the 
commencement  of  the  fiscal  year  to  communicate  by  message  to  the  city 
council  a  statement  of  the  condition  and  affairs  of  the  city,  and  to  recom- 
mend the  adoption  of  such  measures  as  he  may  deem  expedient  and 
proper;  and  he  shall,  further,  have  the  right  to  make  special  communi- 
cations to  the  city  council  from  time  to  time  as  he  may  deem  useful 
and  proper. 

Sec.  8.  3Iayor  to  Enforce  Contracts;  Officers  to  Report  Violations 
of  Contracts  to  3Iayor: — The  mayor  shall  see  that  all  contracts  and 
agreements  made  with  the  city  or  for  its  use  and  benefit  are  faithfully 
kept  and  performed  and  to  this  end  he  shall  cause  any  legal  or  equitable 
proceedings  to  be  instituted  and  prosecuted  against  all  persons  or  cor- 
porations failing  to  fulfill  their  agreements  with  the  city.  And  it  is 
the  duty  of  every  officer  of  the  city,  when  it  shall  come  to  his  knowledge 
that  any  contract  with  the  city  relating  to  the  business  of  any  office 
has  been  violated  by  the  other  contracting  party,  forthwith  to  report 
the  fact  to  the  mayor. 

Sec.  9.     3Iayor    to    Approve    Bonds;    Bonds,    Where    Filed: — The 

mayor  shall,  unless  in  this  charter  otherwise  provided,  take  and  approve 
all  official  undertakings  or  bonds  which  may  be  required  of  any  officer, 
employe  or  agent  of  the  city  as  security  for  the  faithful  performance  of 
his  duty;  and  he  shall  also,  except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this  charter, 
take  and  approve  any  such  bond  or  undertaking  as  may  be  required  of 
any  contractor  for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  contract;  and  when 
he  approves  any  bond  or  undertaking  he  must  immediately  file  the  same 
with  the  city  clerk,  except  the  bond  of  the  city  comptroller,  which  shall 
be  kept  by  the  mayor. 

Sec.  10.  General  Powers  and  Duties  of  3Iayor: — The  mayor  shall 
perform  such  other  duties  and  exercise  such  other  authority  as  may  be 
prescribed  by  any  law  of  the  United  States  or  of  the  State  of  Washing- 
ton, or  by  this  charter  or  any  ordinance  of  the  city. 

Sec.  11.  Absence  or  Incapacity  of  Mayor: — In  case  of  the  absence 
of  the  mayor  from  the  city,  or  if  he  from  any  cause  be  incapacitated 
from  acting,  the  president,  or  in  case  of  his  disability  or  absence,  the 
acting  president  of  the  city  council  shall  act  as  mayor,  and  for  the 
time  being  enjoy  all  his  powers. 

Sec.  12.  Removal  of  Mayor  From  Office: — The  mayor  may  be  re- 
moved from  his  office  for  any  willful  violation  of  liis  duty  during  his 
term  of  office,  or  for  the  commission  of  a  crime  or  misdemeanor  in- 
volving moral  turpitude,  but  only  upon  notice  thereof,  together  with  a 
copy  of  the  charges  against  him,  given  to  him  at  least  five  days  before 


42  CHARTER,    ARTICLES    VI    AND    VII. 

the  hearing,  and  an  opportunity  to  be  present  in  person  and  with  his 
counsel,  and  offer  evidence  in  his  own  behalf  and  to  be  heard  by  himself 
and  counsel,  and  then  only  upon  the  affirmative  vote  of  two-thirds  of 
the  members  of  the  city  council  when  assembled  as  a  court  of  impeach- 
ment, and  for  that  purpose  the  city  council  shall  have  the  same  power 
that  it  would  have  in  trying  any  other  officer. 

Sec.  13.  Advisory  Board,  3Ieetings,  Duties  and  Kecord  of  Proceed- 
ings:— There  is  hereby  constituted  a  body  to  consist  of  the  mayor,  presi- 
dent of  the  city  council,  corporation  counsel,  the  chairman  of  the  board 
of  public  works,  city  comptroller  and  the  city  treasurer,  to  be  called 
the  advisory  board.  The  mayor  shall,  once  in  each  quarter,  and  as 
much  oftener  as  the  interests  of  the  city  appear  to  him  to  require,  call 
a  meeting  of  such  advisory  board.  Such  meetings  shall  be  for  the  pur- 
pose of  comparing  views  and  consulting  together  with  regard  to  the 
affairs  of  the  city,  and  shall  have  the  power  to  make  recommendations 
and  suggestions  to  the  city  council  and  to  the  various  other  departments 
of  the  city  government.  The  mayor  shall  preside  at  all  meetings  of  the 
advisory  board,  and  the  city  comptroller  or  his  deputy  shall  act  as  clerk 
thereof.  All  proceedings  of  the  advisory  board  shall  be  kept  on  record 
in  the  office  of  the  city  comptroller. 

ARTICLE    VI. 

CLERICAL    DEPARTMENT. 

Section  1.  Comptroller  ex-officio  Clerk: — The  city  comptroller 
shall  be  ex-officio  city  clerk,  and  his  deputies  as  comptroller  shall  be  his 
deputies  as  city  clerk. 

Sec.  2.  Duties  of  City  Clerk: — As  city  clerk,  he,  or  a  deputy,  shall 
attend  all  meetings  of  the  city  council  and  keep  full  and  complete  record 
of  the  proceedings  thereof;  and  he  shall  have  the  custody  of  the  city 
seal,  the  public  records,  except  such  as  are  intrusted,  by  the  provisions 
of  this  charter,  to  other  officers,  the  original  rolls  of  ordinances,  the 
original  contracts,  deeds  and  certificates  relative  to  the  title  of  any 
property  of  the  city,  all  official,  indemnity  or  security  bonds,  except  his 
own  bond,  and  such  other  records,  papers  and  documents  of  value  as 
are  not  required  to  be  deposited  with  any  other  officer,  and  he  shall  attest 
all  public  instruments  and  official  acts  of  the  mayor  by  his  signature 
and  the  city  seal,  and  shall  also  certify  under  his  hand  and  the  seal  of 
the  city  all  copies  of  such  original  documents,  records  and  papers  in  his 
office  as  may  be  required  by  any  officer  or  person,  and  charge  therefor 
such  fees  for  the  use  of  the  city  as  are  or  may  be  provided  by  ordinance; 
and  he  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  in  this  charter  pre- 
scribed, and  also  such  as  the  city  council  may  direct  consistent  with  this 
charter. 

ARTICLE    VII. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  POLICE. 

Section  1.  Organization  of  Police  Department;  Mayor  May  Ap- 
point   Emergency    Policemen: — There    shall    be    a    police    department. 


DEPARTMENT    OF    POLICE.  43 

which  shall  consist  of  a  chief  of  police  and  as  many  subordinate  officers, 
detective  officers  and  regular  and  special  policemen  as  the  city  council 
shall  from  time  to  time  by  ordinance'  prescribe;  Provided,  That  the 
mayor  may,  when  the  public  safety  requires  it  in  case  of  emergency,  to 
be  by  him  determined,  appoint  any  number  of  emergency  policemen 
who  shall  discharge  their  duties  and  hold  their  positions  at  the  pleasure 
of  the  mayor  until  the  conclusion  of  the  meeting  of  the  city  council  held 
next  after  such  appointment  and  not  longer,  except  by  consent  of  the 
council.      (As  amended  March  S,  1910.) 

Sec.  2.  Chief  of  Police,  Appointment  and  Removal  of;  Subordinate 
Officers,  How  Appointed: — The  mayor  shall  appoint  the  chief  of  police 
and  may  remove  him  in  his  discretion  upon  filing  a  statement  in  writing 
of  his  reasons  therefor  with  the  secretary  of  the  civil  service  commission. 
The  city  council  may  remove  the  chief  of  police  for  cause  in  the  same 
manner  as  is  provided  in  this  charter  for  the  removal  by  the  city  council 
of  elective  officers.  All  subordinate  police  officers,  detectives  and  regular 
policemen  shall  be  appointed  by  the  chief  of  police  under  said  civil  service 
rules,  except  as  otherwise  in  section  1  of  this  article  provided.  In  case 
the  chief  of  police  shall  be  appointed  from  the  classified  civil  service  and 
shall  not  be  removed  for  cause,  he  shall,  upon  retirement  from  the  office 
of  chief  of  police,  resume  his  former  position  in  the  classified  civil  ser- 
vice; and  the  last  appointee  to  the  position  from  which  said  chief  was 
appointed  and  the  last  appointees  in  positions  subordinate  thereto,  shall 
resume  their  former  positions,  respectively,  in  the  classified  civil  service. 
(As  amended  March  5,  1912,     (Jf.  Am,.  1911.) 

Sec.  3.  Chief  to  Manage  Police  Department: — The  police  depart- 
ment shall  be  under  the  management  of  the  chief  of  police,  except  as 
otherwise  provided  by  law  or  in  this  charter. 

Sec.  4.  Mayor  to  Prescribe  and  Enforce  Rules  for  Police  Depart- 
ment:— The  mayor  shall  prescribe  rules  and  regulations,  not  inconsist- 
ent with  law  and  the  ordinances  of  the  city,  for  the  government  and 
control  of  the  police  department,  and  fix  and  enforce  penalties  for  their 
violation. 

Sec.  5.  Annual  Report  of  Chief  of  Police: — The  chief  of  police 
shall  annually,  or  oftener  if  required  by  the  mayor  or  city  council,  make 
a  report  to  the  mayor  and  city  council  of  any  municipal  legislation  by 
him  deemed  necessary  to  improve  the  condition  of  the  police  force  and 
the  administration  of  the  police  department.  His  annual  report  shall 
show  fully  the  business  and  condition  of  the  police  department,  the  num- 
ber of  arrests  made  during  the  year,  the  causes  thereof,  together  with 
other  general  and  special  information  as  to  the  peace  and  good  order 
of  the  city.  He  shall  also  submit  an  estimate  of  the  amount  of  money 
that  will  be  required  to  pay  salaries  and  expenses  for  the  police  depart- 
ment for  the  ensuing  fiscal  year,  specifying  in  detail  for  what  each  sum 
will  be  required. 

Sec.  6.  First.  Process  Directed  to  Chief  of  Police;  Chief  to  Con- 
trol Police  Force,  Maintain  Peace,  Keep  City  Prison: — The  chief  of  po- 
lice shall  be  the  chief  peace  officer  of  the  city,  and  all  process  issued  by 


44  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    VII. 

the  police  judge  of  the  city,  or  by  any  justice  of  the  peace  in  tlie  city, 
under  authority  of  this  charter  or  any  ordinance  of  the  city,  and  to  which 
the  city  is  a  party,  shall  be  directed  to  him  for  service,  and  may  be  served 
and  returned  by  the  chief  of  police  or  any  police  officer  or  regular  or 
special  policeman.  The  chief  of  police  shall  exercise  vigilant  control 
over  the  police  force,  and  maintain  the  peace  and  quiet  of  the  city.  He 
shall  be  the  keeper  of  the  city  prison.  He  shall  have  in  the  discharge 
of  his  duties  like  powers  and  be  subject  to  like  responsibilities  as  the 
sheriff  of  King  county  in  similar  cases,  and  shall  perform  such  other 
duties  and  have  such  other  powers  as  may  be  imposed  on  or  granted 
to  him  by  this  charter  or  by  ordinance  of  the  city. 

Second.     Powers  of  Policemen  in  3Iaking'  Arrests;  Police  Records: 

— The  chief  of  police  or  any  police  officer  or  any  regular  or  special 
policeman  shall  make  arrests  with  warrant  for  any  crime  or  violation 
of  the  laws  of  the  state  or  any  ordinance  of  the  city,  committed  within 
the  city,  and  shall  make  arrests  without  warrant  in  such  cases  as  shall 
be  prescribed  by  ordinance,  but  not  otherwise;  Provided,  That  until  the 
city  council  prescribe  such  cases  all  arrests  may  be  made  without  war- 
rant. The  chief  of  police  shall  keep  a  correct  record  of  all  arrests 
made  by  him  or  other  members  of  the  police  force,  showing  the  time  and 
cause  of  complaint  upon  which  each  arrest  was  made,  with  a  list  and 
description  of  all  property  and  money  taken  from  each  person,  with  a 
statement  of  the  disposition  made  of  the  same,  and  make  a  full  report 
thereof  in  writing  each  month  to  the  mayor. 

Third.  Chief  Responsible  for  Property  Taken: — The  chief  of  po- 
lice shall  be  responsible  for  all  property  and  money  taken  from  any 
person,  and  shall  be  liable  therefor  on  his  official  bond,  and  any  person 
may  recover  for  loss  of  any  such  property  or  money  in  an  action  brought 
for  that  purpose. 

Fourth.     Duties  of  Policemen  Prescribed  by  Ordinances  and  Rules: 

— The  duties  of  the  other  police  officers  and  regular  and  special  police- 
men and  detective  officers  shall  be  such  as  may  be  provided  from  time 
to  time  by  ordinance  or  by  rules  established  by  the  mayor,  in  addition 
to  the  duties  hereinbefore  prescribed. 

Fifth.  Policemen  Not  to  Eng-age  in  Other  Calling-,  Become  Bail  or 
Receive  Pay  While  Absent: — No  member  of  the  police  force  shall  engage 
in  any  other  profession  or  calling,  or  become  bail  for  any  person  charged 
with  any  offense  whatever,  or  recommend  to  persons  charged  with  crime 
the  employment  of  any  particular  attorney.  No  member  of  the  police 
force  shall  be  allowed  pay  for  any  period  during  which  he  may  have 
been  absent  from  duty,  except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this  charter. 

Sec.  7.  Salary  of  Policemen;  No  Compensation  Except  Salary: — 
Each  member  of  the  police  force  shall  receive  a  salary  to  be  fixed  by 
ordinance,  which  shall  not  be  increased  or  diminished  within  one  year 
after  his  appointment.  No  member  of  the  police  force  shall  receive  any 
fees  or  any  compensation  whatever,  directly  or  indirectly,  from  the  city, 
county  or  state,  for  any  services  rendered  or  act  done,  while  a  member 
of  such  police  force,  other  than  the  salary  above  provided  for,  except 
witness  fees  in  the  superior  court. 


DEPARTMENT    OF    PUBLIC    WORKS.  45 

Sec.  8.  Record  and  Report  of  Conduct  of  Policemen: — The  chief 
of  police  shall  keep  a  record  of  the  conduct  of  men  in  the  department, 
and  send  a  copy  thereof  monthly  to  the  secretary  of  the  civil  service 
commission,  keeping  said  record  in  accordance  with  the  rules  of  and 
upon  forms  supplied  by  said  commission. 

ARTICLE  VIII. 
DEPARTMENT  OF  PUBLIC  WORKS. 

Section  1.  What  Shall  Consist  of;  Chairman  Shall  be  Appointed 
Annually: — There  shall  be,  and  is  hereby  created,  a  board  of  public 
works  which  shall  consist  of  six  (6)  members,  to-wit:  (1)  The  city 
engineer;  (2)  the  superintendent  of  streets  and  sewers;  (3)  the  superin- 
tendent of  waterworks;  (4)  the  superintendent  of  lighting;  (5)  the 
superintendent  of  buildings;    (6)  the  superintendent  of  public  utilities. 

Chairman  Shall  be  Appointed  Annually: — The  chairman  of  said 
board  shall  be  appointed  annually  by  the  mayor.  The  members  of  the 
board,  as  such,  shall  receive  no  compensation.  (As  amended  March  8, 
1910.     Cf.  Am.  1908.) 

Sec.  2.  Chairman  to  Attend  and  May  Address  Council: — It  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  chairman  of  the  board  of  public  works  to  attend  all 
regular  meetings  of  the  city  council,  and  such  other  meetings  as  the  city 
council  may  direct.  He  shall  have  the  right  to  speak  upon  any  meas- 
ure pertaining  to  his  department,  but  shall  have  no  vote. 

Sec.  3.  Appointment  and  Duties  of  Secretary: — The  board  shall 
appoint  a  clerk,  whose  appointment  and  tenure  of  office  shall  be  subject 
to  the  provisions  of  Article  XVI.  of  this  charter,  and  who  shall  be  styled 
"secretary  of  the  board  of  public  works."  He  shall  keep  his  office  at 
the  place  where  the  meetings  of  the  board  are  held,  which  shall  be  kept 
open  during  business  hours,  and  at  such  other  hours  as  the  board  may 
direct.  He  shall  keep  a  complete  record  of  all  the  proceedings  of  the 
board  in  a  book  kept  for  such  purpose,  and  shall  file  and  preserve  all 
papers  committed  to  his  charge,  and  shall  perform  such  other  duties 
as  the  board  may  direct. 

Sec.  4.  Reg-ular  Meeting's;  Quorum: — The  board  shall  hold  regu- 
lar meetings  once  each  week,  and  special  meetings  at  such  time  as  it 
may  appoint,  or  the  chairman  may  call.  All  meetings  shall  be  public 
and  shall  be  held  at  a  place  which  shall  be  provided  by  the  city  council. 
A  majority  of  all  the  members  of  the  board  shall  constitute  a  quorum 
and  an  affirmative  vote  of  a  majority  of  all  the  members  of  the  board 
shall  be  necessary  to  adopt  any  motion,  order  or  resolution,  or  to  make 
any  appointment.      fAs  amended  March  S.  1910.) 

Sec.  5.  Powers  and  Duties  of  Board: — The  board  is  hereby  author- 
ized and  empowered,  and  it  is  hereby  made  its  duty,  subject  to  the  pro- 
visions of  the  city  charter,  and  saving  to  the  city  council  such  powers 
as  are  given  to  it  in  this  charter: 


46  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    VIII. 

First.  To  3rake  Rules: — To  make  such  rules  and  regulations  as 
shall  be  deemed  necessary  for  its  government  and  the  government  and 
control  of  all  persons  in  the  employ  of  its  several  departments. 

Second:  To  Certify  Bills  and  Allow  Claims: — To  certify  all  bills 
and  allowances  and  claims  due  to  contractors  of  public  works,  and 
officers,  and  persons  in  the  employ  of  the  board  of  its  several  depart- 
ments. 

Third.  To  3Ianasre  Water  System: — To  take  charge  of,  superin- 
tend, manage  and  control  the  water  system,  water  works,  mains,  pumps, 
pipes,  reservoirs,  and  all  matters  and  things  connected  therewith,  and 
to  manage,  direct  and  control  the  building,  operating  and  repair  thereof 
by  the  city,  and  to  cause  the  rates  charged  consumers  of  water  by  the 
city  to  be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  city. 

Fourth.  To  Manag'e,  Biiildiiig  and  Kepair  Sewers  and  3Ial£e 
Sewer  Connections  Keqiiired  by  Board  of  Health: — To  have  the  man- 
agement, control,  building  and  repairing  of  the  sewers  of  the  city  and 
all  connections  therewith.  It  shall  cause  to  be  made  and  cause  to  be 
repaired  such  sewer  connections  as  the  board  of  health  shall  certify  to 
it  to  be  necessary  for  proper  sanitation. 

Fifth.  To  Control  Wharves,  Etc.,  Owned  by  City:— To  have  the 
control,  management,  building,  repairing  and  the  direction  of  all 
wharves,  docks,  bridges,  viaducts,  landings,  slips,  boats  and  other  struc- 
tures which  shall  be  building  or  owned  by  the  city. 

Sixth.     To  Manag'e  and  Construct  City  Building-s  and  Structures: — 

To  have  the  management,  control  and  construction  of  all  public  build- 
ings or  other  structures  owned  or  constructed  by  the  city,  except  as 
otherwise  provided  by  this  charter. 

Seventh.  To  Superintend  and  Manage  Public  Grounds: — To  have 
the  superintendence  and  management  of  all  public  grounds  of  the  city, 
and  the  ornamentation  and  improvement  of  the  same,  except  as  other- 
wise provided  in   this  charter. 

Eighth.  To  3Ianage  and  Control  Streets: — To  have  the  manage- 
ment and  control  of  all  the  public  streets  and  alleys  in  the  city,  includ- 
ing all  streets  and  alleys  dedicated  to  public  use,  and  the  superintend- 
ence of  grading,  paving,  planking  and  cleaning  the  same,  and  of  the 
building  and  reconstruction  of  sidewalks  and  gutters  therein,  and  of 
the  removal  of  garbage  therefrom,  and  of  making  other  improvements 
therein. 

Ninth.  To  Superintend  Public  Places  Not  Enumerated: — To  have 
the  superintendence  of  all  public  places,  structures  and  works  within  the 
city  not  above  enumerated,  except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this  charter. 

Tenth.  To  Reg-ulate  Public  Utilities  in  Streets: — To  command, 
regulate,  control  and  direct  the  erection  and  removal  of  poles  in  streets 
for  telegraph,  telephone  and  electric  wires  for  electric  lights  and  motors; 
to  fix  the  place  of  location  and  to  control  and  direct  the  laying  down  of 
street  railway  tracks  and  turntables,  and  require  all  companies  building 


DEPARTMENT    OF    PUBLIC    WORKS.  47 

and  operating  such  roads  to  conform  to  the  street  grades  in  all  streets 
wherein  the  same  are  operated;  to  fix  and  regulate  the  places  and  man- 
ner of  laying  down  and  taking  up  all  motor,  gas,  steam,  sewer  and  other 
pipes  in  the  streets  and  other  public  places  in  the  city. 

Eleventh.  To  Manage  City  Lighting  Plant: — To  have  the  superin- 
tendence, control  and  management  of  such  building  or  buildings,  plants 
and  other  apparatus  as  may  be  owned,  constructed  or  controlled  by 
the  city  for  the  purpose  of  furnishing  light  or  power  to  the  city  and  its 
inhabitants,  or  other  consumers,  and  to  locate  and  distribute  the  lights 
under  any  and  all  systems  of  lighting  the  city. 

Twelfth.  To  Perform  Duties  and  Exercise  Powers  Prescribed  by 
Ordinance: — To  perform  such  other  and  further  duties  and  exercise 
such  other  and  further  powers  not  inconsistent  with  this  charter,  as 
may  be  prescribed  by  ordinance. 

Sec.  6.  Board,  What  Officers  Shall  Constitute: — There  shall  be  a 
city  engineer,  a  superintendent  of  streets  and  sewers,  a  superintendent 
of  water  works,  a  superintendent  of  lighting,  a  superintendent  of  build- 
ings and  a  superintendent  of  public  utilities,  each  of  whom  shall  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  mayor,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  city 
council,  for  the  term,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided,  of  three  years. 
(As  amended  March  8,  1910.     Cf.  Am.  1908.) 

Sec.  7.  First.  City  Engineer,  Qualifications  of;  to  Make  Surveys, 
Plans  and  Reports  and  Superintend  Construction  of  Public  Works: — The 

city  engineer  must  be  a  civil  engineer.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  make  such 
surveys,  maps,  profiles,  plans,  specifications,  estimates  and  reports  as 
shall  be  required  by  the  city;  and  under  the  direction  of  the  board,  to 
lay  out,  direct  and  supervise  the  construction  of  all  public  works  within 
the  city,  or  on  property  belonging  to,  or  controlled  by  the  city,  that  may 
from  time  to  time  be  ordered  by  the  city  council. 

Second.  To  Superintend  Buildings,  Bridges  and  Wharves,  Be  In- 
spector of  Buildings,  Enforce  Ordinances  and  Regulations,  Employ  Labor 
and  Perform  Duties  Prescribed  by  Ordinance  or  Board: — The  city  engi- 
neer shall,  under  the  direction  of  the  board,  superintend  and  have  the 
management  and  control  of  bridges,  wharves  and  public  buildings  of  the 
city  and  of  the  construction  and  repair  thereof.  He  shall  be  inspector 
of  buildings.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  see  that  the  ordinances  and  the 
rules  and  regulations  established  by  the  board  of  public  works,  relating 
to  his  department,  are  enforced.  He  shall  under  civil  service  rules 
have  control  of  the  employment  of  all  labor,  skilled  or  other,  in  his 
department.  He  shall  have  such  other  and  additional  powers  as  the 
city  council  may  by  ordinance  grant,  and  he  shall  perform  such  other 
duties  as  the  city  council  or  board  of  public  works  may  from  time  to 
time  prescribe  or  direct. 

Third.  To  File  and  Have  Custody  of  Plans,  Etc.,  of  Public  Improve- 
ments:— All  plans,  specifications,  maps  and  estimates  made  by  the  city 
engineer  for  public  improvements  shall  be  filed  in  his  office  and  be  open 
to  public  inspection,  but  no  plan,  specification,  map  or  estimate  made  by 


48  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    VIII. 

him  or  under  his  direction,  for  the  use  of  the  city,  shall  be  removed  from 
his  office,  and  any  person  found  having  any  such  document  unlawfully 
in  his  possession,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  for  which 
the  city  council  shall  by  ordinance  prescribe  the  proper  penalties. 

Fourth.     Appointment  and  Term  of  First  City  Engineer: — At  the 

first  meeting  of  the  city  council  created  by  this  charter  the  mayor  shall 
appoint  a  city  engineer,  whose  term  of  office  shall  expire  December  31, 
1896. 

Sec.  7.  (a).  Superintendent  of  Public  Utilities;  To  Enforce  Fran- 
chise Ordinances;  Appointment  of;  Term  of  Office: — There  shall  be  a 
superintendent  of  public  utilities.  He  shall  rigidly  enforce  the  pro- 
visions of  all  franchise  ordinances,  and  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the 
board  of  public  works  relating  to  his  department.  He  shall,  so  far  as 
public  necessity  may  demand,  superintend  all  franchise  construction 
which  may  be  carried  on  in  or  across  the  streets  of  the  City  of  Seattle. 
He  shall  from  time  to  time  present  to  the  board  of  public  works  written 
recommendations  as  to  such  changes  or  betterments  which  should  be 
required  to  be  made  in  the  equipment  of  franchise  companies  in  order 
to  secure  the  comfort  and  safety  of  the  public.  He  shall  keep  an  ac- 
curately indexed  record  of  all  franchise  work  showing  the  time  of  be- 
ginning and  completion.  He  shall  keep  on  file  in  his  office  a  series  of 
plats  drawn  to  scale,  showing  the  exact  position  that  each  public  utility 
occupies  in  the  streets,  together  with  sectional  maps,  showing  the  depths 
at  or  to  which  the  same  may  lie  below  the  surface  of  the  streets.  It  shall 
be  his  duty  to  carefully  examine  every  application  made  for  franchise 
construction  in  the  City  of  Seattle  and  report  his  recommendation  on 
each  to  the  board  of  public  works.  In  connection  with  the  city  council 
he  shall  consider  every  application  made  to  the  City  of  Seattle  for  a 
franchise  and  present  his  recommendations  thereon  in  writing.  He 
shall,  under  civil  service  rules,  have  control  of  the  employment  of  all 
labor,  skilled  or  other,  in  his  department.  He  shall  have  such  other 
additional  powers  as  the  city  council  may  by  ordinance  grant,  and  he 
shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  the  city  council  or  board  of  public 
works  may,  from  time  to  time,  prescribe  or  direct.  At  the  first  meeting 
of  the  city  council  after  the  first  day  of  April,  1908,  the  mayor  shall 
appoint  a  superintendent  of  public  utilities,  whose  term  of  office  shall 
expire  December  31,  1909.      fAs  adopted  March  -l  1908.) 

Sec.  8.  First.  Superintendent  of  Streets,  Sewers  and  Parks  to 
Have  Charge  of  Maintenance  of  Public  Grounds,  Superintend,  Kepair, 
Cleaning  and  Reconstruction  of  Streets,  Sewers  and  Drains,  Employ 
Laborers,  Enforce  Ordinances  and  Rules,  Control  Excavations  in  Streets 
and  Have  Powers  and  Duties  as  Prescribed  by  Ordinance: — The  superin- 
tendent of  streets,  sewers  and  parks  shall,  under  the  direction  of  the 
city  council,  have  charge  of  the  maintenance  of  all  city  parks  and  public 
grounds,  and  shall,  under  the  direction  of  the  board,  superintend  the  re- 
pairing, cleaning  and  reconstruction  of  the  streets,  gutters,  sidewalks, 
sewers  and  drains  in  the  city.  He  shall,  under  civil  service  rules,  have 
control  of  the  employment  of  all  laborers  in  his  department.  It  shall 
be  his  duty  to  see  that  the  ordinances  of  the  city  and  the  rules  and  regu- 


SECTION  9,  ARTICLE  VIII. 

Section  9.  (As  amended  March  '/,  WIS.)  Department  of  Water  Works: 
To  Enforce  Ordinances,  Contracts,  etc.: — In  the  department  of  public 
works  there  shall  be  a  department  of  water  works,  the  head  of  which 
shall  be  the  superintendent  of  water  works.  He  shall  be  appointed  by 
the  Mayor,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  City  Council,  for 
a  term,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided,  of  three  years.  He  shall  be 
a  member  of  the  board  of  public  works.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  super- 
intendent of  water  works  to  rigidly  enforce  the  provisions  of 
all  water  contracts.  He  shall,  subject  to  the  control  of  the  board  of 
public  works,  have  the  management  and  control  of  the  operation  and 
maintenance  of  the  water  system  of  the  city,  including  all  buildings  and 
grounds  belonging  to  the  water  system,  together  with  all  lands  and 
other  property  acquired  for  the  water  system  for  watershed  or  right  of 
way  purposes.  He  shall  enforce  all  ordinances  and  the  rules  of  the 
board  relating  to  his  department;  he  shall  appoint  under  civil  service 
rules,  supervise  and  control  all  officers  and  employes  of  his  department. 
He  shall  cause  to  be  kept  proper  accounts  with  all  consumers  of  water, 
and  shall,  every  ninety  (90)  days,  compile  a  statement  of  the  names  and 
property  of  such  consumers  as  are  delinquent,  and  shall  forthwith  cause 
the  service  of  these  consumers  to  be  discontinued.  The  superintendent 
of  water  works  shall  have  such  further  powers  and  perform  such  other 
duties  as  are  provided  by  this  charter,  or  shall  be  prescribed  from  time 
to  time  by  the  City  Council  or  the  board  of  public  works. 

Department  of  Lighting:    To  Enforce  Ordinances,  Contracts,  etc.: — 

In  the  department  of  public  works  there  shall  be  a  department  of  light- 
ing, the  head  of  which  shall  be  the  superintendent  of  lighting.  He  shall 
be  appointed  by  the  mayor  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the 
City  Council  for  a  term,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided,  of  three 
years.  He  shall  be  a  member  of  the  board  of  public  works.  It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  superintendent  of  lighting  to  rigidly  enforce  the  provi- 
sions of  all  lighting  contracts;  to  recommend  to  the  board  changes, 
removals  or  installations  of  light,  and,  subject  to  the  control  of  the 
board  of  public  works,  to  take  charge  of  and  direct  the  operation  and 
maintenance  of  the  lighting  or  power  plants  of  the  city,  including  all 
buildings  and  grounds  appertaining  thereto.  He  shall  enforce  all  ordin- 
ances and  the  rules  of  the  board  relating  to  his  department.  He  shall 
appoint,  under  civil  service  rules,  supervise  and  control  all  officers  and 
employes  in  his  department.  He  shall  cause  to  be  kept  proper  accounts 
with  all  consumers  of  light  and  power,  and  shall  every  ninety  (90)  days, 
compile  a  statement  of  the  names  and  property  of  such  consumers  as  are 
delinquent,  and  shall  forthwith  cause  the  service  to  these  consumers  to 
be  discontinued.  The  superintendent  of  lighting  shall  have  such  fur- 
ther powers  and  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  are  provided  by  this 
charter,  or  shall  be  prescribed  from  time  to  time  by  the  City  Council  or 
the  board  of  public  works. 


SECTION  9,  ARTICLE  VIII. 

City  Treasurer  Shall  Collect  Water  and  Lighting  Bills: — The  city 
treasurer  shall  collect  the  bills  issued  by  the  department  of  water  works 
and  the  department  of  lighting,  and  shall  report  daily  to  the  city  comp- 
troller the  amounts  collected.  The  receipts  arising  from  the  said 
respective  departments  shall  be  kept  by  the  city  treasurer  in  separate 
funds.  The  city  comptroller  shall,  once  each  month,  or  oftener  if 
required,  present  to  the  board  of  public  works  complete  reports  of  the 
transactions  of  the  department  of  water  works,  and  of  the  department 
of  lighting,  including  receipts  from  all  sources  and  expenditures,  to- 
gether with  separate  statements  showing  the  financial  condition  of  each 
department.  The  City  Council  shall  provide  by  ordinance  all  necessary 
regulations  for  the  proper  guidance  of  the  city  treasurer,  superintendent 
of  water  works  and  superintendent  of  lighting,  in  relation  to  the  collec- 
tion and  enforcement  of  light  and  power  and  water  rates,  and  other 
charges. 

Terms  of  Office  of  Superintendent  of  Lighting  and  Water  Works: — 

The  incumbent  of  the  office  of  superintendent  of  lighting  and  water 
works,  at  the  time  of  the  taking  effect  of  this  section,  shall  continue  in 
office  as  superintendent  of  water  works  until  the  31st  day  of  December, 
1910;  provided  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  construed  to  con- 
fer on  such  incumbent  any  right  to  continue  in  virtue  of  his  original 
appointment  as  superintendent  of  lighting  and  water  works.  At  the 
first  meeting  of  the  City  Council  after  the  first  day  of  April,  1910,  the 
mayor  shall  appoint  a  superintendent  of  lighting  whose  term  of.  office 
shall  expire  December  31,  1911. 


DEPARTMENT    OF    PUBLIC    WORKS.  49 

lations  established  by  the  board  of  public  works,  relating  to  his  depart- 
ment, are  enforced.  He  shall,  under  the  direction  of  the  board,  have 
the  control  of  all  excavations  and  refilling  of  the  same  that  are  made 
in  any  public  street  for  any  purpose  whatsoever.  He  shall  have  such 
further  powers  and  duties  as  are  provided  in  this  charter,  or  as  the  city 
council  may  prescribe  or  direct. 

Second.     Appointment  and  Term  of  First  Superintendent: — At  the 

first  meeting  of  the  city  council  created  by  this  charter,  the  mayor  shall 
appoint  a  superintendent  of  streets,  sewers  and  parks,  whose  term  of 
office  shall  expire  December  31,  1897. 

Sec.  9.  Department  of  Water  Works;  To  Enforce  Ordinances,  Con- 
tracts, Etc.: — In  the  department  of  public  works  there  shall  be  a  depart- 
ment of  water  works,  the  head  of  which  shall  be  the  superintendent  of 
water  works.  He  shall  be  appointed  by  the  mayor,  by  and  with  the 
advice  and  consent  of  the  city  council,  for  a  term,  except  as  herein  other- 
wise provided,  of  three  years.  He  shall  be  a  member  of  the  board  of 
public  works.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  superintendent  of  water  works 
to  rigidly  enforce  the  provisions  of  all  water  contracts.  He  shall,  under 
the  direction  of  the  board  of  public  works,  have  the  management  and 
control  of  the  operation  and  maintenance  of  the  water  system  of  the 
city.  He  shall  enforce  all  ordinances  and  the  rules  of  the  board  relating 
to  his  department;  he  shall  appoint,  under  civil  service  rules,  supervise 
and  control  all  officers  and  employes  of  his  department.  He  shall  cause 
to  be  kept  proper  accounts  with  all  consumers  of  water,  and  shall,  every 
ninety  (90)  days,  compile  a  statement  of  the  names  and  property  of  such 
consumers  as  are  delinquent,  and  shall  forthwith  cause  the  service  of 
these  consumers  to  be  discontinued.  The  superintendent  of  water  works 
shall  have  such  further  powers  and  perform  such  other  duties  as  are 
provided  by  this  charter,  or  shall  be  prescribed  from  time  to  time  by  the 
city  council  or  the  board  of  public  works. 

Department  of  Lighting-;  To  Enforce  Ordinances,  Contracts,  Etc.: — 

In  the  department  of  public  works  there  shall  be  a  department  of  light- 
ing, the  head  of  which  shall  be  the  superintendent  of  lighting.  He  shall 
be  appointed  by  the  mayor  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the 
city  council  for  a  term,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided,  of  three 
years.  He  shall  be  a  member  of  the  board  of  public  works.  It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  superintendent  of  lighting  to  rigidly  enforce  the  pro- 
visions of  all  lighting  contracts;  to  recommend  to  the  board  changes, 
removals  or  installations  of  light,  and,  under  the  control  of  the  board  of 
public  works,  td  take  charge  of  and  direct  the  operation  and  mainten- 
ance of  the  lighting  or  power  plants  of  the  city.  He  shall  enforce  all 
.ordinances  and  the  rules  of  the  board  relating  to  his  department.  He 
shall  appoint,  under  civil  service  rules,  supervise  and  control  all  officers 
and  employes  in  his  department.  He  shall  cause  to  be  kept  proper  ac- 
counts with  all  consumers  of  light  and  power,  and  shall,  every  ninety 
(90)  days,  compile  a  statement  of  the  names  and  property  of  such  con- 
sur"  'rs  as  are  delinquent,  and  shall  forthwith  cause  the  service  to  these 
consumers   to   be   discontinued.     The   superintendent   of   lighting   shall 


50  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    VIII. 

have  such  further  powers  and  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  are 
provided  by  this  charter,  or  shall  be  prescribed  from  time  to  time  by  the 
city  council  or  the  board  of  public  works. 

City  Treasurer  Shall  Collect  Water  aud  Liishtiii^  Bills: — The  city 
treasurer  shall  collect  the  bills  issued  by  the  department  of  water  works 
and  the  department  of  lighting,  and  shall  report  daily  to  Mie  city  comp- 
troller the  amounts  collected.  The  receipts  arising  from  the  said  respec- 
tive departments  shall  be  kept  by  the  city  treasurer  in  separate  funds. 
The  city  comptroller  shall,  once  each  month,  or  oftener  if  required, 
present  to  the  board  of  public  works  complete  reports  of  the  transactions 
of  the  department  of  water  works,  and  of  the  department  of  lighting, 
including  receipts  from  all  sources  and  expenditures,  together  with  sep- 
arate statements  showing  the  financial  condition  of  each  department. 
The  city  council  shall  provide  by  ordinance  all  necessary  regulations  for 
the  proper  guidance  of  the  city  treasurer,  superintendent  of  water  works, 
and  superintendent  of  lighting,  in  relation  to  the  collection  and  enforce- 
ment of  light  and  power  and  water  rates,  and  other  charges. 

Terms  of  Office  of  Superintendents  of  Lightina:  and  Water  Works: — 

The  incumbent  of  the  office  of  superintendent  of  lighting  and  water 
works,  at  the  time  of  the  taking  effect  of  this  section,  shall  continue  in 
office  as  superintendent  of  water  works  until  the  31st  day  of  December, 
1910;  provided  that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  construed  to 
confer  on  such  incumbent  any  right  to  continue  in  office  that  he  would 
not  have  had  by  virtue  of  his  original  appointment  as  superintendent 
of  lighting  and  water  works.  At  the  first  meeting  of  the  city  council 
after  the  first  day  of  April,  1910,  the  mayor  shall  appoint  a  superintend- 
ent of  lighting,  whose  term  of  office  shall  expire  December  31.  1911. 
(A.<i  (imeiidcd  Mxrch  S.  PJUl.      Cf.   Am.   J!>(>S.) 

Sec.  9  (a).  f.\s  <,(loi:tnJ  March  S.  ]!)0S.)  Superintendent  of  Build- 
ings; Qualifications;  Duties: — There  shall  be  a  superintendent  of  build- 
ings, who  shall  also  be  a  superintendent  of  public  buildings  and  grounds. 
He  shall  be  either  a  structural  engineer,  architect  or  builder.  It  shall 
be  his  duty  to  see  that  the  building  ordinances  of  the  city  and  the  rules 
and  regulations  established  by  the  board  of  public  works  relating  to 
his  department  are  enforced.  Under  the  direction  of  the  board  of 
public  works,  he  shall  have  the  management  and  control  of  the  public 
buildings  of  the  city,  and  of  the  lands  belonging  to  the  city,  other  than 
parks  and  library.  He  shall  also  have  charge  of  the  construction  and 
maintenance  of  municipal  buildings.  He  shall  keep  a  list  of  all  the 
property  belonging  to  the  city,  and,  under  the  direction  of  the  board 
of  public  works,  shall  seek  to  obtain  a  reasonable  revenue  from  all 
property,  other  than  park  and  library  property,  not  actually  required 
for  the  city's  use,  and  shall,  through  the  board  of  public  works,  make 
a  report  to  the  city  council  quarterly,  enumerating  the  city's  property, 
and  the  use  to  which  each  piece  is  put,  and  the  rentals  derived  there- 
from. He  shall,  under  civil  service  rules,  have  control  of  the  employ- 
ment of  all  labor,  skilled  or  otherwise,  in  his  department.  He  shall 
have  such  other  additional  powers  as  the  city  council  may  by  ordinance 


SECTION  9-A,  ARTICLE  VHI. 

Section  9-a.  ( As  amended  March  'i,  WIS.)  Superintendent  of  Build- 
ing's; Qualiiieations;  Duties: — There  shall  be  a  superintendent 
of  buildings  who  shall  also  be  a  superintendent  of  public  build- 
ings and  grounds.  He  shall  be  either  a  structural  engineer,  archi- 
tect or  builder.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  see  that  the  building  ordinances 
of  the  city  and  the  rules  and  regulations  established  by  the  board  of 
public  works  relating  to  his  department  are  enforced.  Subject  to  the 
control  of  the  board  of  public  works,  he  shall  have  the  management  and 
control  of  the  public  buildings  and  lands  belonging  to  the  City,  other 
than  parks,  library,  lighting  and  water  systems.  He  shall  also  have 
charge,  subject  to  the  control  of  the  board  of  public  works  of  the  con- 
struction and  maintenance  of  municipal  buildings.  He  shall  keep  a  list 
of  all  the  property  belonging  to  the  city,  and,  under  the  direction  of  the 
board  of  public  works,  shall  seek  to  obtain  a  reasonable  revenue  from 
all  property,  other  than  parks  and  library  property,  lighting  and  water 
systems,  not  actually  required  for  the  city's  use,  and  shall,  through  the 
board  of  public  works,  make  a  report  to  the  city  council  quarterly  enu- 
merating the  city's  property,  and  the  use  to  which  each  piece  is  put,  and 
the  rentals  derived  therefrom.  He  shall,  under  civil  service  rules,  have 
control  of  the  employment  of  all  labor,  skilled  or  otherwise,  in  his  depart- 
ment. He  shall  have  such  other  additional  powers  as  the  City  Council 
may  by  ordinance  grant;  and  he  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  the 
City  Council  or  the  board  of  public  works  may  from  time  to  time  pre- 
scribe or  direct. 


DEPARTMENT    OF    PUBLIC    WORKS.  51 

grant;  and  he  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  the  city  council  or  the 
board  of  public  works  may  from  time  to  time  prescribe  or  direct. 

Sec.  9  (b).  (As  adopted  March  3.  1D08.)  Board  of  Appeals;  Mem- 
bership, Appointment  and  Term  of  Office: — That  there  shall  be,  and  is 
hereby  created  and  established,  a  board  of  appeals,  which  shall  consist 
of  three  members,  to  be  appointed  as  follows:  - — 

First.  One  person  who  shall  be  appointed  by  the  mayor,  and  con- 
firmed by  the  city  council,  and  who  shall  hold  office  for  three  years 
from  the  date  of  his  appointment. 

Second.  One  competent  architect  who  has  practiced  in  Seattle  not 
less  than  two  years,  who  shall  be  appointed  by  the  mayor,  confirmed 
by  the  council.  Such  appointee  shall  hold  office  for  a  term  of  two 
years  from  the  date  of  his  appointment. 

Third.  One  competent  builder  who  has  been  engaged  in  that  line 
of  business  for  at  least  two  years  in  Seattle,  who  shall  be  appointed  by 
the  mayor  and  confirmed  by  the  city  council.  Such  appointee  shall 
hold  office  for  a  term  of  one  year  from  the  date  of  his  appointment, 

,      Fourth.     The  term  of  the  several  members  of  said  board  of  appeals 
shall  be  three  years  each  after  the  expiration  of  the  first  term. 

Sec.  9  (c).  (As  adopted  March  3.  1008.)  Board  of  Appeals;  Duties 
of: — The  board  of  appeals  shall  hear  and  determine  all  appeals  from  the 
superintendent  of  buildings,  except  as  to  municipal  buildings,  and  hear 
and  determine  such  other  matters  with  relation  to  construction  and  new 
methods  and  appliances  as  may  be  brought  or  come  to  its  attention,  and 
shall  perform  such  other  and  further  duties  as  may  be  required  by  the 
ordinances  of  the  City  of  Seattle. 

Sec.  9  (d).  (As  adopted  March  3,  1908.)  Board  of  Appeals,  Re- 
moral  of  Members: — Any  member  of  the  board  of  appeals  may  be  re- 
moved by  the  mayor  for  malfeasance  in  office,  incapacity  or  neglect  of 
duty. 

Sec.  9  (e).  (As  adopted  March  .3.  1908.)  Board  of  Appeals,  Dis- 
qualification of  Members  and  Appointment  of  Substitutes: — No  member 
of  said  board  of  appeals  shall  sit  in  a  case  in  which  he  is  interested,  and 
in  case  of  such  disqualification,  or  in  the  necessary  absence  of  any 
member,  the  mayor  shall  appoint  a  substitute  from  the  class  to  which 
the  disqualified  or  absent  member  belongs. 

Sec.  9  (f).  (As  adopted  March  3.  1908.)  Board  of  Appeals,  Salary 
and  Compensation  of  Members  of: — Members  of  the  board  of  appeals 
may  be  paid  such  salaries  or  compensation  for  their  services  as  may  be 
determined  by  the  city  council. 

Sec.  9  (g).  (As  adopted  March  3.  1908.)  Board  of  Appeals,  .Meet- 
ings of: — The  board  of  appeals  shall  meet  once  a  month  on  stated  days, 
or  oftener,  at  the  call  of  the  chairman  or  notice  of  any  special  appeal. 

Sec.  9  (h).  (As  adopted  March  3, 1908.)  Board  of  Appeals,  Appeals 
to: — The  city  council  shall,  as  soon  as  practicable,  by  ordinance  pre- 


52  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    VIII. 

scribe  the  method  and  manner  of  appeal  from  the  superintendent  of 
buildings  to  the  board  of  appeals,  and  shall  fix  and  prescribe  the  cost 
for  appeal  to  be  paid  by  the  party  appealing,  and  the  disposition  to  be 
made  of  said  cost  on  appeal  upon  the  final  hearing  of  the  case. 

Sec.  9  (i).  (As  adopted  March  S,  1908.)  Board  of  Appeals,  Recom- 
mendations by: — The  board  of  appeals  shall  recommend  to  the  city 
council  such  new  building  ordinances  or  revisions  of  old  ordinances  as 
it  may  deem  proper. 

Sec.  10.  Contracts  for  Local  Improvements;  Subletting: — All  local 
improvements,  the  funds  for  the  making  of  which  are  directly  or  indi- 
rectly to  be  derived,  in  whole  or  in  part,  from  the  assessments  upon  the 
property  benefited  thereby,  and  such  improvements  as  the  city  council 
shall  by  ordinance  prescribe,  shall  be  made  by  contract,  to  be  let  to  the 
lowest  bidder  therefor,  under  the  management  of  the  board  of  public 
works.  It  shall  be  made  a  condition  of  every  such  contract  that  it  shall 
not  be  sublet  unless  for  the  furnishing  of  material;  Provided,  however. 
That  the  city  council  may,  by  a  two-thirds  vote,  by  ordinance  provide 
otherwise  as  to  any  particular  contract. 

Sec.  11.  Subdivision  1.  (As  amended  March  6',  IDOO.)  Local  Im- 
provements at  Expense  of  Property  Benefited: — Whenever  the  public 
interest  or  convenience  may  require,  the  city  council  is  hereby  author- 
ized and  empowered  to  order  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the  streets,  lanes, 
alleys,  squares  or  places  of  the  city  to  be  graded  or  regraded  to  the 
official  grade,  planked  or  replanked,  paved  or  repaved,  macadamized  or 
remacadamized,  graveled  or  regraveled,  piled  or  replied,  capped  or  re- 
capped, and  to  order  sidewalks,  sewers,  manholes,  culverts,  bulkheads, 
retaining  walls,  water  mains,  curbing  and  cross  walks  to  be  constructed 
or  repaired  therein ;  and  to  order  any  and  all  work  to  be  done  which  shall 
be  necessary  to  complete  the  whole  or  any  portion  of  the  said  streets. 
lanes,  alleys,  squares  or  places;  and  the  city  council  may  levy  and  collect 
an  assessment  upon  all  lots  or  parcels  of  land  specially  benefited  by  such 
improvements  to  defray  the  whole  or  any  portion  of  the  cost  and  expense 
thereof,  which  assessment  shall  become  a  first  lien  upon  all  property 
liable  therefor,  prior  and  superior  to  all  other  liens  and  encumbrances. 

Subdivision  2.  fAs  amended  March  G,  J 906.  Cf.  Am.  1900.)  Pro- 
vision by  General  Ordinance;  Proceeding's  Required: — The  city  council 
shall  by  general  ordinance  provide  the  manner  in  which  the  aforesaid 
improvements  may  be  made  and  prescribe  all  needful  regulations  for 
the  exercise,  by  the  city,  of  the  power  granted  and  contained  in  the  fore- 
going subdivision  of  this  section;  Provided,  That  in  all  cases  in  which 
the  whole  or  any  portion  of  the  cost  and  expense  of  any  such  improve- 
ment is  to  be  defrayed  by  the  collection  of  a  special  assessment  upon 
the  property  specially  benefited  thereby,  the  following  proceedings  shall 
be  taken,  viz.: 

Petition  to  Board  of  Public  Works,  Contents  of,  by  Whom  Signed:— 

There  must  be  presented  to  the  board  of  public  works  a  written  petition 
setting  forth  the  street  or  streets,  lane  or  lanes,  alley  or  alleys,  squares 


SECTION  10,  ARTICLE  VUl- 


,  .  ir  7,  /  /Q/n  liiiDrovements  May  Be 
section  10.  (A-^  ""»"""'  ^'"-f  ''.  ."{•^■^j  .mprovemente.  the  funds 
Made  l,y  Contract  «r  by  ^»y  ^f'^'l^^l^^M^l  be  derived,  in  whole 
for  the  making  of  which  ^^^^'^''^'^ff  °V  property  benefited  thereby,  and 
or  in  part,  from  assessments  ^P-^f/J^^^^T,  shall  by  ordinance  pre- 
such  other  improvements  as  the  City  c  ^.^^^^  ^^^^^^^^ 

scribe,  may  be  -^--^l^^  XXZlt  pluc  works,  or  in  the  discretion 
under  the  management  of  '^^  »°"''      /^„,_  „,ay  be  done  under  the  man- 

*■ — • "- "'"-  rr: ::;;:;  «.■ .«.» -  •»  -- • 

Bids  may  be  received  f^  ^l^/^J^^J  ^        ^^  for  the  furnishing  of  ma- 
contract  and  no  contract  ^^^^^^^^^^^f J^^  Com.cil. 

tPrml  without  the  previous  consent  ot  me  ^    y 

terial  witno  ^^^^  ^^^  ^^^  ^^^^^^^ 

„.ayr 'r— '"de^:  C^rf^i   iinprovement,  or  any  part 
thereof  shall  be  made  by  contract  or  otherwise. 


DEPARTMENT    OF    PUBLIC    WORKS.  53 

or  places,  or  parts  thereof  to  be  improved,  the  nature  of  the  improvement, 
the  mode  of  payment  and  the  fact  that  the  signers  are  the  owners  of  the 
property  to  be  benefited  by  such  improvement,  to  the  aggregate  amount 
of  a  majority  of  the  special  assessment  to  be  levied  therefor  according 
to  the  transfer  books  in  the  office  of  the  county  auditor.  If  any  such 
property  stands  in  the  name  of  a  deceased  person  or  any  person  for 
whom  a  guardian  has  been  appointed,  the  signature  of  the  executor, 
administrator  or  guardian,  as  the  case  may  be,  shall  be  equal  to  the 
signature  of  the  owner  of  the  property  on  such  petition. 

Board  to  Estimate  Cost  and  Report  to  Council: — If  the  board  of 
public  works  finds  the  facts  set  forth  in  said  petition  to  be  true,  they 
shall  cause  an  estimate  of  the  cost  and  expense  of  such  improvement 
to  be  made  and  transmit  the  same,  together  with  all  papers  and  informa- 
tion in  their  possession  touching  such  improvement,  with  the  estimated 
cost  thereof,  and  their  recommendations  thereon,  a  description  of  the 
property  which  will  be  specially  benefited  thereby  and  a  statement  of 
the  proportionate  amount  of  the  cost  and  expense  of  such  improvement 
which  shall  be  borne  by  such  property,  to  the  city  council. 

Authority  of  Council;  When  Cost  Exceeds  Fifty  Per  Cent,  of  Assessed 
Value: — The  city  council  shall  have  full  authority  to  consider  all  matters 
in  relation  to  such  proposed  improvement,  and  may  authorize  the  same 
by  ordinance  or  refuse  it  in  its  discretion;  provided,  that  unless  the  peti- 
tion for  said  improvement  shall  be  signed  by  three-fourths  (%)  of  the 
property  to  be  assessed  therefor  and  specifies  a  greater  percentage  than 
fifty  per  cent.,  the  city  council  or  board  of  public  works  shall  n(?t  have 
authority  to  further  proceed  in  the  matter  of  such  improvement  when- 
ever the  cost  of  any  such  work  or  improvement  ordered  to  be  done  by 
the  city  council,  and  chargeable  as  a  lien,  under  the  provisions  of  this 
article,  against  the  property  specially  benefited  within  such  assessment 
district  shall  exceed  fifty  per  cent,  of  the  total  assessed  valuation  of  the 
lots  or  parcels  of  land  contained  in  such  assessment  district  as  the  same 
appears  upon  the  last  annual  assessment  roll,  made  for  the  levying  of 
taxes  for  municipal  purposes,  in  which  case  such  improvement  shall  not 
be  granted  unless  the  same  be  so  modified  that  the  cost  thereof  shall  not 
exceed  such  fifty  per  cent,  of  the  aforesaid  valuation. 

Fifty  Per  Cent.  Limit  May  be  Exceeded,  When: — Said  limit  of  fifty 
per  cent.,  however,  may  be  extended  when  any  improvement  shall  be 
petitioned  for  by  the  owners  of  three-fourths  (%)  of  the  property  to  be 
assessed  for  said  proposed  improvement,  and  when  such  petition  specifies 
not  to  exceed  a  certain  higher  percentage. 

Action  of  Council  Final: — The  action  and  decision  of  the  city  council 
as  to  all  matters  passed  upon  by  it  in  relation  to  the  rejection  or  the 
granting  of  such  petition  shall  be  final  and  conclusive. 

Improvements  Without  Petition;  Vote  Required;  Grading;  Unani- 
mous Vote: — The  city  council  may  order  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the 
streets,  lanes,  alleys,  squares  or  public  places  of  the  city  to  be  graded, 
regraded,  sidewalked,  residewalked,  planked  or  replanked,  paved,  re- 
paved,  macadamized,  remacadamized,  graveled,  regraveled,  piled,  replied, 


54  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    VIII. 

capped,  recapped,  or  may  order  any  bulkhead,  retaining  wall,  viaduct, 
tunnel,  water  main  or  sewer  with  manholes,  catch  basins  and  other 
proper  connections,  to  be  constructed  or  repaired  therein,  and  may  pro- 
vide for  defraying  the  whole  or  any  portion  of  the  cost  and  expense  of 
any  such  improvement  by  the  collection  of  a  special  assessment  upon  the 
property  specially  benefited  thereby  in  the  manner  provided  in  this  sec- 
tion without  the  presentation  of  any  petition  either  to  the  board  of  public 
works  or  to  the  city  council;  Provided,  That  unless  a  petition  as  herein- 
before prescribed  be  presented,  such  improvement  shall  not  be  ordered 
except  by  ordinance  passed  by  the  affirmative  vote  of  two-thirds  of  all 
the  members  of  the  city  council,  at  a  regular  meeting,  or  at  a  meeting 
which  is  an  adjournment  of  a  regular  meeting;  Provided,  No  street  shall 
be  ordered  graded  without  petition,  except  by  unanimous  vote  of  all 
members  present; 

Sewer  Districts;  3Iaiii  SeAvers,  Cost  of,  How  Levied: — and.  Pro- 
vided, That  there  may  be  established  sewer  or  drainage  districts  in  con- 
formity to  the  requirements  of  the  topography  of  the  ground;  and  con- 
structed in  each  of  said  districts  a  main  or  trunk  sewer.  Such  district 
shall  include  real  estate  which  can  be  conveniently  sewered  or  drained 
into  such  main  or  trunk  sewer,  either  directly  or  by  means  of  sub-sewers, 
and  which  will  be  benefited  thereby.  There  shall  first  be  levied  against 
the  property  immediately  abutting  and  contiguous  to  such  main  or  trunk 
sewer,  and  which  can  be  conveniently  sewered  or  drained  into  said  main 
or  trunk  sewer,  such  amounts,  in  accordance  with  special  benefits  as 
would  have  been  levied  against  such  property  in  case  there  had  been 
constructed,  in  the  same  place,  a  branch  or  sub-sewer  for  the  service  of 
that  immediate  neighborhood  only;  the  remaining  portion  of  the  cost  of 
said  main  or  trunk  sewer  shall  then  be  distributed  and  assessed  equitably 
against  all  the  land  included  in  said  sewer  or  drainage  district  in  ac- 
cordance with  special  benefits  and  in  proportion  to  the  area  of  the 
various  lots,  tracts  or  parcels  of  land  therein. 

Subdivision  3.  (As  amnidcd  March  i;.  JDtiii  rf.  Am.  I'.ino.)  Local 
Improvement  Districts;  What  to  Contain;  Subdivisions: — Every 
ordinance  ordering  any  improvement  mentioned  in  this  section 
shall    establish    a    local    improvement    district    to    be    called    "Local 

Improvement    District    No. ,"    which    district    shall    embrace, 

as  near  as  may  be,  all  the  property  specially  benefited  by  such  improve- 
ment. Unless  otherwise  provided  in  such  ordinance,  such  district  shall 
be  deemed  to  include  all  the  property  between  the  termini  of  said  im- 
provement, abutting  upon,  adjacent  or  proximate  to  the  street,  lane, 
alley,  avenue,  place  or  square  proposed  to  be  improved  to  a  distance 
back  from  the  marginal  line  thereof  to  the  center  line  of  the  blocks  facing 
thereon;  Provided,  That  in  case  the  distance  back  from  the  street  shall 
be  at  least  ninety  (90)  feet;  and  provided  further,  that  in  case  of  un- 
platted property,  the  distance  back  from  the  margin  of  the  same,  for 
purposes  of  assessment,  shall  be  the  same  distance  as  that  included  in 
the  assessment  of  the  platted  lands  immediately  adjacent  thereto,  and 
all  property  included  within  said  limits  of  such  local  improvement  dis- 
trict shall  be  considered  and  held  to  be  the  property  specially  benefited  by 


DEPARTMENT    OF    PUBLIC    WORKS.  55 

such  local  improvement,  and  shall  be  the  property  to  be  assessed  to  pay 
the  cost  and  expense  thereof,  or  such  proportion  thereof  as  may  be 
chargeable  against  the  property  specially  benefited  by  such  improve- 
ment, and  shall  be  the  property  to  be  assessed  to  pay  the  cost  and  expense 
thereof,  or  such  proportion  thereof  as  may  be  chargeable  against  the 
property  specially  benefited  by  such  improvement,  which  cost  and  ex- 
pense shall  be  assessed  upon  all  of  said  property  so  benefited  in  propor- 
tion to  the  separate  and  special  benefit  conferred  on  such  property  by 
reason  of  its  area  and  particular  location  within  the  district.  Said  local 
improvement  district  shall,  for  the  purpose  of  assessing  the  cost  of  such 
improvement,  in  proportion  to  the  separate  and  special  benefits  con- 
ferred, be  divided  into  four  subdivisions  to  be  numbered  respectively  1st, 
2nd,  3rd  and  4th  subdivisions.  The  first  subdivision  shall  include  all 
lands  lying  between  the  street  margin  and  a  line  drawn  parallel  there- 
with and  thirty  (30)  feet  therefrom.  The  second  subdivision  shall  in- 
clude all  lands  lying  within  lines  drawn  parallel  with  and  thirty  (30) 
and  sixty  (60)  feet  respectively  from  said  street  margin.  The  third 
subdivision  shall  include  all  lands  lying  within  lines  drawn  parallel  with 
and  sixty  (60)  and  ninety  (90)  feet  respectively  from  said  street  margin. 
The  fourth  subdivision  shall  include  all  lands  lying  between  a  line  drawn 
parallel  with  and  ninety  (90)  feet  from  said  street  margin  and  the  outer 
limit  of  said  local  improvement  district,  as  hereinabove  described.  If  the 
areas  of  each  of  the  four  subdivisions  are  equal,  there  shall  be  assessed 
against  the  first  subdivision  40  per  centum  of  the  whole  cost,  against  the 
second  subdivision  25  per  centum  of  the  whole  cost,  against  the  third 
subdivision  20  per  centum  of  the  whole  cost,  and  against  the  fourth  sub- 
division 15  per  centum  of  the  whole  cost.  If  the  areas  are  unequal,  the 
rates  fixed  for  each  subdivision  shall  be  fixed  on  the  basis  that  the  benefits 
conferred  on  a  square  foot  of  land  in  subdivisions  first,  second,  third  and 
fourth  respectively,  are  related  to  each  other  as  are  the  numbers  40,  25, 
20  and  15  respectively. 

Hearings  on  Assessment  Rolls;  Notice  of  Hearing: — The  city  coun- 
cil, at  all  hearings  on  assessment  rolls,  shall  sit  as  a  board  of  equalization 
in  open  council  for  the  purpose  of  changing,  altering  or  amending  said 
rolls,  that  all  assessments  shall  be  made,  as  near  as  may  be,  strictly  in 
accordance  with  special  benefits,  and  the  subdivision  rate  of  assessment 
herein  prescribed,  shall  in  nowise  limit  or  abridge  such  powers  of  the 
city  council.  All  notices  of  hearing  on  assessment  rolls  shall  clearly 
specify  that  at  such  hearing  the  council  will  proceed  to  confirm  all  as- 
sessments shown  thereon,  or  lower,  raise  or  otherwise  modify  or  alter 
the  same  as,  in  its  discretion  may  be  deemed  just. 

Assessments  on  City  Property: — All  assessments  levied  upon  lands 
of  the  City  of  Seattle  shall  be  paid  by  the  City  of  Seattle  out  of  the  funds 
of  the  department  or  commission  having  supervision  of  said  lands. 

Sec.  12.  Mode  of  "Immediate  Payment": — There  shall  be  two  (2) 
modes  of  making  payment  for  such  portion  of  the  cost  and  expense  of  the 
improvements  mentioned  in  section  eleven  (11)  of  this  article  as  shall 
be  chargeable  against  the  local  improvement  district  created  as  herein- 
before   provided,    to-wit:      "Immediate    Payment"    and    "Payment    by 


56  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    Vlll. 

Bonds."  The  mode  adopted  shall  be  the  mode  petitioned  for  in  case  said 
improvement  shall  be  made  upon  petition,  otherwise  the  mode  shall  be 
such  as  the  council  shall  direct  in  the  ordinance  ordering  such  improve- 
ment. 

The  mode  of  "Immediate  Payment"  shall  be  as  follows: 

After  the  city  council  has  by  ordinance  ordered  or  authorized  the 
making  of  any  such  improvement,  and  not  more  than  twenty  (20)  days 
after  the  contract  therefor  has  been  let  as  hereinbefore  provided,  the 
board  of  public  works  shall  report  to  the  council  an  assessment  roll  pre- 
pared in  duplicate  by  the  city  engineer,  which  shall  contain  the  descrip- 
tion of  each  lot  or  parcel  of  land  or  part  thereof  to  be  assessed,  the 
amount  to  be  charged,  levied  or  assessed  against  each  lot  or  parcel  of 
land  or  part  thereof  in  proportion  to  the  special  benefits  to  be  received 
by  each  such  lot  or  parcel  or  part  thereof  from  such  improvement,  and 
the  name  of  the  owner  of  each  lot  or  parcel  of  land  or  part  thereof,  if 
known,  but  in  no  case  shall  a  mistake  in  the  name  of  the  owner  be  fatal 
when  the  description  of  the  property  is  correct.     The  council,  on  receipt 
of  such  assessment  roll,  shall  cause  a  notice  thereof  to  be  published  in 
the  official  newspaper  of  the  city  for  ten  (10)  consecutive  issues,  notifying 
all  persons  interested  that  said  roll  has  been  filed  and  requiring  them  to 
appear  at  a  time  fixed  not  less  than  fifteen  (15)  days  from  the  date  of  the 
last  publication  of  such  notice  and  make  objections  thereto.     The  council 
shall  at  the  time  fixed  consider  all  objections  made  and  shall  make  such 
corrections  of  such  roll  as  it  deems  just,  and  shall  then,  by  ordinance, 
approve  such  roll,  and  levy  and  assess  the  amounts  thereof  against  each 
lot  and  parcel  or  part  thereof,  and  declare  the  same  a  first  lien  thereon, 
and  shall  cause  the  roll  to  be  delivered  to  the  city  comptroller,  who 
shall  forthwith  transmit  the  duplicate  of  the  same  to  the  city  treasurer 
with  his  certificate  that  the  same  has  been  duly  approved  by  the  city 
council,  upon  receipt  of  which  the  city  treasurer  shall  proceed  to  collect 
the  same,  except  as  the  duty  of  collection  thereof  is  devolved  by  law^ 
upon  some  other  officer;   Provided,  That  such  treasurer  shall  give  ten 
days'  notice  in  the  official  newspaper   (and  shall  mail  a  copy  of  such 
notice  to  the  owner  of  the  property  assessed,  when  the  postoffice  address 
of  such  owner  is  known,  but  the  failure  to  mail  the  same  shall  not  be 
fatal  when  publication  thereof  is  made)  that  such  roll  has  been  certified 
to  him  for  collection,  and  that  unless  payment  is  made  within  thirty  (30) 
days  from  the  date  of  such  notice  such  assessment  will  become  delinquent 
and  shall  bear  interest  at  the  rate  of  ten  per  cent,  per  annum  until  paid, 
and  if  not  paid  before  such  assessment  shall  have  become  delinquent  a 
penalty  of  five  per  cent,  shall  be  added,  and  such  delinquent  assessments 
shall  forthwith  be  collected  by  the  city  treasurer  in  his  ex-officio  capacity 
as  tax  collector  in  the  manner  prescribed  by  law.     The  city  treasurer 
shall  add  no  penalty  to  any  delinquent  assessment  in  any  case  where 
the  state  laws  require  a  penalty  to  be  added  to  such  assessnient.     (As 
amended  March  3, 1!)0S.     Cf.  Am.  1900.) 

Sec.  13.  Mode  of  Payment  by  Bonds;  Estimate;  Assessments;  Levy 
and  Collection;  Issuance  and  Sale  of  Bonds: — The  mode  of  payment  by 
bonds  shall  be  as  follows:     After  the  city  council  has  by  ordinance  or- 


DEPARTMENT    OF    PUBLIC    WORKS.  57 

dered  or  authorized  the  improvement,  and  not  more  than  twenty  days 
after  the  contract  therefor  has  been  let,  an  estimate  and  roll  shall  be 
made  and  returned  and  corrections  be  made  therein  and  notice  given  as 
prescribed  in  section  12  of  this  article  governing  local  improvements 
made  under  the  immediate  payment  plan,  and  the  cost  and  expense  of 
such  improvement  shall  be  charged  against  the  lots  and  parcels  of  land 
in  the  local  improvement  district  to  be  created  by  the  ordinance  author- 
izing the  improvement,  in  the  method  prescribed  by  sections  11  and  12 
of  this  article.  Contracts  shall  be  made  and  assessments  levied  and  col- 
lected in  the  same  manner  as  is  provided  in  this  article  for  the  levying 
and  collection  of  assessments  where  payment  is  provided  to  be  made  by 
the  mode  of  immediate  payment,  except  as  otherwise  herein  provided, 
and  all  other  proceedings  shall  be  had"  in  accordance  with  the  provisions 
of  the  laws  of  the  State  of  Washington  relating  to  the  issuance  and  sale 
of  bonds  by  cities,  to  pay  for  local  improvements,  and  providing  for  the 
payment  thereof.     (As  amended  March  6,  1900.) 

Sec.  14.  Contracts  Made  or  Supplies  to  he  Purchased  by  Contract 
Let  to  Lowest  Bidder;   Notice;   Check  or  Surety  Bond  With  Bid: — All 

public  improvements  to  be  made  or  supplies  to  be  purchased  by  contract 
shall  be  let  to  the  lowest  bidder  therefor.  Before  awarding  any  such 
contract  the  board  of  public  works  shall  cause  to  be  published  in  the 
official  newspaper  of  the  city  a  notice,  for  at  least  ten  days  before  the 
letting  of  such  contract,  inviting  sealed  proposals  for  such  work,  or 
supplies,  the  plans  and  specifications  or  quality  whereof  must,  at  the 
time  of  the  publication  of  such  notice  be  on  file  in  the  office  of  the  secre- 
tary of  the  board,  subject  to  public  inspection.  Such  notice  shall  state 
generally  the  work  to  be  done  or  supplies  to  be  furnished,  and  shall  call 
for  proposals  for  doing  or  furnishing  the  same,  sealed  and  filed  with 
the  secretary  on  or  before  the  day  and  hour  named  therein.  All  bids 
shall  be  accompanied  by  a  certified  check  payable  to  the  order  of  the 
city  comptroller,  or  a  surety  bond,  for  a  sum  not  less  than  5  per  cent, 
of  the  amount  of  the  bid,  and  no  bid  shall  be  considered  unless  accom- 
panied by  such  check  or  bond.     (As  amended  March  5.  1912.) 

Sec.  15.  Opening-  Bids;  Acceptance  and  Kejection;  Letting*  Con- 
tract; Return  of  Checks;  Forfeiture;  No  Remission: — At  the  time  and 
place  named  such  bids  shall  be  publicly  opened  and  read;  no  bid  shall 
be  rejected  for  informality,  but  shall  be  received  if  it  can  be  understood 
what  is  meant  thereby.  The  board  shall  proceed  to  determine  the  lowest 
bidder,  and  may  let  such  contract  to  such  bidder,  or,  if  in  their  opinion 
all  bids  are  too  high,  they  may  reject  all  of  them  and  readvertise,  and 
in  such  case  all  checks  shall  be  returned  to  the  bidders;  but  if  such 
contract  be  let,  then  and  in  such  case  all  checks  shall  be  returned  to  the 
bidders  except  that  of  the  successful  bidder,  which  shall  be  retained  until 
a  contract  be  entered  into  for  making  such  improvement  between  the 
bidder  and  the  city  in  accordance  with  such  bid.  If  the  said  bidder  fails 
to  enter  into  such  contract  in  accordance  with  his  bid  within  ten  days 
from  the  date  at  which  he  is  notified  that  he  is  the  successful  bidder,  the 
said  check  and  the  amount  thereof  shall  be  forfeited  to  the  city,  and 
the  secretary  shall  deliver  said  check  to  the  city  comptroller,  who  shall 


58  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    VIII. 

draw  said  amount  and  pay  the  same  into  the  city  treasury,  to  the  credit 
of  the  "local  improvement  fund,"  and  the  board  shall  readvertise  for 
proposals  for  such  work.  Neither  the  board  nor  the  city  council  shall 
have  power  to  remit  such  forfeiture. 

Sec.  16.     Thirty  Per  Cent,  of  Contract  Price  Retained;  Lien  of  La- 
borers and  3Iaterial  Men;  Iinprovement,  When  Deemed  Completed: — In 

letting  all  contracts  for  public  improvements  the  board  shall  provide 
therein  that  at  least  thirty  per  cent,  of  the  amount  due  the  contractor  on 
estimates  shall  be  retained  to  secure  the  payment  of  laborers  who  have 
performed  work  thereon,  and  material  men  who  have  furnished  materials 
therefor,  and  such  laborers  and  material  men  shall  for  thirty  days  after 
their  work  has  been  completed  have  a  lien  on  such  thirty  per  cent,  so 
reserved  for  labor  done  and  materials  furnished,  which  lien  shall  be 
senior  to  all  other  liens,  whether  by  judgment,  attachment  or  contract, 
and  no  improvement  shall  be  deemed  completed  until  the  board  shall 
have  filed  with  the  city  clerk  a  statement  signed  by  a  majority  of  them 
declaring  the  same  to  have  been  completed.  The  city  council  shall  by 
ordinance  prescribe  suitable  means  and  remedies  for  the  preservation 
and  enforcement  of  the  liens  provided  for  in  this  section. 

Sec.  17.     Surplus  Funds;  Rebates;  Unclaimed  Surplus  Funds: — Any 

funds  remaining  in  the  treasury  belonging  to  the  fund  of  any  local  im- 
provement district  after  the  payment  of  the  whole  cost  and  expense  of 
such  improvement,  in  excess  of  the  total  sum  required  to  defray  all  the 
expenditures  by  the  city  on  account  thereof,  shall  be  refunded,  on  de- 
mand, to  the  amount  of  such  over  payment ;  and  if  there  shall  be  an  excess 
in  the  assessment  of  any  person  who  shall  not  have  paid  his  assessment 
a  rebate  shall,  on  demand,  be  allowed  to  such  person  to  the  amount  of 
such  over-assessment;  Provided,  Such  demand  hereinabove  provided  for 
be  made  within  two  years  from  the  date  upon  which  the  assessment  for 
such  local  improvement  district  became  due.  Any  such  funds  remain- 
ing in  the  treasury  after  the  expiration  of  two  years  from  the  date  afore- 
said for  which  no  demand  has  been  made  as  herein  provided,  belonging  to 
any  local  improvement  district,  after  the  payment  of  the  whole  cost  and 
expense  of  such  improvement  shall  be  transferred  to  the  general  fund. 

Sec.  18.  Subdivision  1.  Re-assessments,  >Vlien  3Iade: — Whenever 
an  assessment  for  laying  out,  establishing,  closing,  straightening,  alter- 
ing, widening,  grading,  regrading,  paving,  repaving,  planking,  replank- 
ing,  sidewalking  and  bridging,  macadamizing,  remacadamizing,  gravel- 
ing, regraveling.  piling,  repiling,  capping,  recapping,  any  street,  avenue 
or  alley,  or  for  any  local  improvement  which  has  heretofore  been  made 
or  which  may  hereafter  be  made  by  the  city,  has  been  or  may  be  here- 
after declared  void,  and  its  enforcement  under  this  charter  or  the  laws 
governing  the  city  refused  by  the  courts  of  this  state,  or  for  any  cause 
whatever  has  been  heretofore  or  may  be  hereafter  set  aside,  annualled 
or  declared  void  by  any  court,  either  directly  or  by  virtue  of  any  decision 
of  such  court,  the  city  council  shall,  by  ordinance,  order  and  make  a  new 
assessment  or  re-assessment  upon  the  lots,  blocks  or  parcels  of  land 
which  have  been  or  will  be  benefited  by  such  local  improvement,  to  thf» 


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extent  of  their  proportionate  part  of  the  expense  thereof,  and  in  case 
the  cost  shall  exceed  the  actual  value  of  such  local  improvement,  the 
new  assessment  or  re-assessment  shall  be  for,  and  based  upon  the  actual 
value  of  the  same  at  the  time  of  its  completion;  and  to  this  end  the 
board  of  public  works  shall  make  a  new  assessment  roll  inequitable 
manner  with  reference  to  the  benefits  received,  as  near  as  may  be  in 
accordance  with  the  law  in  force  at  the  time  such  re-assessment  is  made, 
and  when  the  same  shall  have  been  confirmed  and  approved  by  the 
council  it  shall  be  enforced  and  collected  in  the  same  manner  that  other 
assessments  for  local  improvements  are  enforced  and  collected  under 
the  charter  or  laws  governing  the  city,  but  all  proceedings  relative  to 
making  the  expenses  of  local  improvements  chargeable  upon  property 
benefited  thereby,  required  and  provided  by  this  charter  or  laws  of  the 
city  prior  to  the  making  of  original  assessment  roll,  shall  not  be  in- 
cluded or  required  within  the  purpose  of  this  section. 

Subdivision  2.  Re-assessment  by  Ordinance: — The  city  council 
shall  by  ordinance  order  and  make  a  new  assessment  or  re-assessment, 
as  provided  in  this  section,  upon  the  lots,  blocks  or  parcels  of  land,  which 
have  been  or  will  be  benefited  by  such  improvement,  to  the  extent  of  their 
proportionate  part  of  the  cost,  expense  and  value  thereof. 

Subdivision  3.  Re-assessment  Roll: — Upon  the  passage  of  an  ordi- 
nance, as  hereinbefore  provided,  the  board  of  public  works  shall  make 
out  an  assessment  roll  according  to  the  provisions  of  the  said  ordinance 
and  shall  certify  the  same  to  the  council. 

Subdivision  4.  Notice;  Objections: — Upon  receiving  the  said  as- 
sessment roll  the  city  clerk  shall  give  notice  by  three  (3)  successive  pub- 
lications in  the  official  newspaper  of  the  city  that  such  assessment  roll 
is  on  file  in  his  office,  the  date  of  filing  the  same,  and  said  notice  shall 
state  a  time  at  which  the  council  will  hear  and  consider  objections  to 
said  assessment  roll  by  parties  aggrieved  by  such  assessment.  The 
owner  or  owners  of  any  property  which  is  assessed  in  such  assessment 
roll,  whether  named  or  not  in  such  roll,  may  within  ten  (10)  days  from 
the  last  publication  provided  herein,  file  with  the  clerk  his  objections 
in  writing  to  said  assessment. 

Subdivision  5.  Hearing-  on  Objections;  Revision;  Correction,  Con- 
firmation or  Setting-  Aside  of  Re-assessments: — At  the  time  appointed 
for  hearing  objections  to  such  assessment,  the  council  shall  hear  and 
determine  all  objections  which  have  been  filed  by  any  party  interested, 
to  the  regularity  of  the  proceedings  in  making  such  re-assessment,  and 
to  the  correctness  of  the  amount  of  such  re-assessment,  or  of  the  amount 
levied  on  any  particular  lot  or  parcel  of  land;  and  the  council  shall  have 
the  power  to  adjourn  such  hearing  from  time  to  time  and  shall  have  the 
power,  in  its  discretion,  to  revise,  correct,  confirm  or  set  aside,  and  to 
order  that  such  assessment  be  made  de  novo,  and  the  covnicil  shall  pass 
an  order  approving  and  confirming  said  proceedings  and  said  re-assess- 
ment as  corrected  by  it  and  its  decision  and  order  shall  be  a  final  de- 
termination of  the  regularity,  validity  and  correctness  of  said  re-assess- 
ment,  to  the  amount  thereof  levied  on  each  lot  or  parcel  of  land. 


60  CHARTER.    ARTICLE    VII I. 

Subdivision  6.  Contract,  Coiiipletiou  of  Work  or  Irregularities  Not 
to  Prevent  Ke-assessmeut;  Limit  of  lie-assessment;  Payments  Under 
Former  Assessments: — The  fact  that  tlie  contract  lias  been  let  or  that 
such  improvement  shall  have  been  made  and  completed  in  whole  or  in 
part,  shall  not  prevent  such  assessment  from  being  made,  nor  shall  the 
omission,  failure  or  neglect  of  any  officer  or  officers  to  comply  with  the 
provisions  of  the  charter  or  laws  governing  the  city,  as  to  petition,  notice, 
resolution  to  improve,  estimate,  survey,  diagram,  manner  of  letting  con- 
tract or  execution  of  work,  or  any  other  matter  whatsoever  connected 
with  the  improvement  and  the  first  assessment  thereof,  operate  to  in- 
validate or  in  any  way  affect  the  making  of  the  new  assessment  or  re- 
assessment as  provided  for  by  this  section,  charging  the  property  bene- 
fited with  the  expense  thereof;  Provided,  That  such  new  assessment  shall 
be  for  an  amount  which  shall  not  exceed  the  actual  cost  and  value  of 
the  improvement,  together  with  any  interest  that  shall  have  lawfully 
accrued  thereon,  and  that  such  amount  be  equitably  apportioned  upon 
the  property  benefited  thereby,  according  to  the  provisions  of  the  charter 
or  laws  of  the  city.  It  being  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of  this  section 
to  make  the  cost  and  expense  of  all  local  improvements  payable  by  the 
real  estate  benefited  by  such  improvement  by  making  a  re-assessment 
therefor,  notwithstanding  that  the  proceedings  of  the  city  council  or 
board  of  public  works  or  any  of  its  officers  may  be  found  irregular  or 
defective,  whether  jurisdictional  or  otherwise;  when  such  re-assessment 
is  completed  all  sums  paid  on  the  former  attempted  assessment  shall  be 
credited  to  the  property  on  account  of  which  the  same  was  paid. 

Subdivision  7.  Collection  of  Assessments:- — In  all  cases  where  the 
treasurer  or  proper  collecting  officer  shall  be  unable  to  enforce  the  col- 
lection of  any  special  assessment,  by  reason  of  irregularity  or  omission 
in  any  proceedings  subsequent  to  the  confirmation  of  such  assessment, 
the  council  is  authorized  and  empowered  to  cause  a  new  warraift  or  order 
to  issue  to  the  treasurer  or  other  proper  officers  for  the  collection  of  any 
assessment  which,  by  reason  of  such  irregularity  or  omission,  remains 
unpaid  and  not  collected.  The  treasurer,  or  other  proper  officer,  shall 
proceed  under  such  new  warrant  or  order  to  enforce  and  collect  the 
assessments  therein  specified  in  the  same  manner,  as  near  as  may  be, 
as  is  prescribed  by  the  provisions  of  this  section,  for  the  enforcement 
and  collection  of  such  assessment,  after  the  same  shall  have  been  con- 
firmed as  in  this  section  provided;  and  as  often  as  any  failure  shall 
occur  by  reason  of  such  irregularities  or  omissions,  a  new  warrant  or 
order  may  issue,  and  new  proceedings  be  had  in  like  manner,  until 
such  special  assessment  shall  be  fully  collected,  as  to  each  and  every  lot 
or  parcel  of  land  charged  therewith. 

Subdivision  8.  Right  of  Appeal  From  Assessments: — Any  person 
who  has  filed  objections  to  such  new  assessment  or  re-assessment,  as 
hereinbefore  provided,  shall  have  the  right  to  appeal  to  the  superior 
court  of  King  County. 

Subdivision  9.     Appeal,  How  Taken;  Judgment  on  Appeal;  Costs: — 

Such  appeal  shall  be  made  by  filing  a  written  notice  of  appeal  with  the 
city  clerk  within  ten  (10)  days  after  such  new  assessment  or  re-assess- 


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ment  roll  shall  have  been  approved  and  confirmed  by  the  council,  and 
said  notice  shall  describe  the  property  and  the  objections  of  such 
appellant  to  such  assessment,  and  such  appellant  shall  also  file  with 
the  clerk  of  the  superior  court  aforesaid,  within  twenty  (20)  days  from 
the  approval  and  confirmation  of  such  roll  by  the  council,  a  copy  of  said 
notice,  appeal,  re-assessment  roll  and  proceedings  thereon  certified 
by  the  city  clerk,  together  with  a  bond  to  the  city,  conditioned  to  pay 
all  costs  that  may  be  awarded  against  the  appellant  in  such  sum  not  less 
than  two  hundred  dollars  ($200),  and  with  such  security  as  shall  be 
approved  by  a  judge  of  said  court,  and  the  case  shall  be  docketed  by  the 
clerk  of  such  court  in  the  name  of  the  person  taking  such  appeal  against 
the  city  as  "an  appeal  from  assessments."  The  judgment  of  the  court 
shall  be  either  to  confirm,  modify  or  annul  the  assessment  in  so  far  as 
the  same  affects  the  property  of  the  appellant,  from  which  judgment 
an  appeal  shall  lie  to  the  supreme  court  as  in  other  causes.  In  case 
the  assessment  is  confirmed  the  fees  of  the  city  clerk  for  copies  of  the 
record  shall  be  taxed  against  the  appellant  with  other  costs. 

Subdivision  10.  Re-assessmient  for  Deficiencies:- — Whenever,  for 
any  cause,  mistake  or  inadvertence,  the  amount  originally  assessed  shall 
not  be  sufficient  to  pay  the  cost  of  the  improvement  made  and  enjoyed 
by  the  owners  of  property  in  the  local  assessment  district  where  the  same 
is  made,  it  shall  be  lawful,  and  the  city  council  is  hereby  directed  and 
authorized  to  make  re-assessments  on  all  the  property  in  said  local  as- 
sessment district  sufficient  to  pay  for  such  improvement,  such  re-assess- 
ment to  be  made  and  collected  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this 
section. 

Sec.  19.  Lighting-  Contracts: — No  contracts  for  lights  or  lighting 
shall  be  let  for  a  longer  term  than  one  year.  The  lights  shall  be  of 
such  kind  as  the  city  council  may  by  ordinance  prescribe. 

Sec.  20.  Public  Work  on  Sundays,  Holidays  and  at  Nig-lit,  Permit 
for,  Required:  Forfeiture  of  Franchises: — No  work  shall  be  done  by  the 
city  or  any  department,  officer  or  employe  thereof,  on  any  legal  holiday 
or  Sunday  by  way  of  construction  or  extension  of  any  public  work,  nor 
shall  any  work  be  done  on  any  such  day,  or  between  seven  o'clock  p.  m. 
of  any  day  and  six  o'clock  a.  m.  of  the  following  day,  by  any  corpora- 
tion or  other  person,  by  way  of  construction,  extension  or  removal  of 
any  structure  upon,  over,  under  or  along  any  street,  alley  or  other  public 
place  within  the  city  or  under  control  of  the  city,  except  in  case  of 
extraordinary  emergency,  and  then  only  upon  the  written  permit  of 
the  mayor,  wherein  the  fact  of  such  emergency,  and  the  nature  thereof 
shall  be  specified,  and  in  case  of  violation  of  any  provision  of  this  sec- 
tion by  any  person  or  corporation  owning,  holding  or  claiming  any 
franchise  in,  over,  under  or  along  such  street,  alley  or  other  public  place, 
all  his  right  or  its  right,  title  and  interest  in  such  franchise  shall  thereby 
be  forfeited  and  instantly  revert  to  the  city.  The  mayor  shall  be  free 
in  his  discretion  to  grant  or  withhold  such  permit. 

Railroad,  Telegraph,  Telephone  or  Electric  Construction,  Permit  for. 
Required: — And  in  no  case  shall  any  corporation  or  person  be  permitted 


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62  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    VIII. 

to  commence  a  building  or  construction  of  any  street  or  other  railroad, 
telegraph,  telephone  or  electric  light  line  in  the  city  without  first  ob- 
taining a  permit  therefor  from  the  board  of  public  works. 

Sec.  21.  Recommendatious  as  to  Sewerag-e  System: — The  board 
of  public  works  shall  from  time  to  time  make  such  recommendations 
to  the  city  council  relating  to  the  extension  or  improvement  of  the 
sewerage  system  as  said  board  may  deem  proper. 

Sec.  22.  Location,  Form  and  3Iaterial  of  Sewers: — Said  board, 
subject  to  such  control  as  the  city  council  shall  by  ordinance  exercise, 
shall  prescribe  the  location,  form  and  materials  to  be  used  in  the  con- 
struction and  repairs  of  all  public  sewers,  manholes,  sinks,  cesspools 
and  other  appurtenances  belonging  to  the  sewerage  system,  and  of 
every  private  sewer  emptying  into  a  public  sew^er,  and  determine  the 
place  and  manner  of  location  thereof,  except  as  otherwise  in  this  charter 
provided. 

Sec.  23.     Construction  of  Public  Sewers;  Estimates;  Plans;  ^raps: 

— Before  any  public  sewer  shall  be  contracted  for  or  built,  its  construc- 
tion shall  be  ordered  by  the  city  council,  and  the  city  engineer,  or  any 
other  person  the  council  may  designate,  shall  cause  to  be  prepared  the 
necessary  estimates  and  plans  for  the  work,  and  a  profile  showing  the 
grades  of  the  street  and  sewer,  and  the  depth  of  such  sewer  below  sur- 
face of  the  street,  and  the  height  above  the  level  established  and  used 
as  the  city  datum,  and  when  such  sewer  is  completed  he  shall  cause  a 
map  to  be  prepared,  showing  the  size  and  location  of  the  manholes, 
basins  and  branches. 

Sec.  24.  Sewer  Connections,  Permit  for.  Required: — No  person 
shall  connect  with  or  open  or  penetrate  any  public  sewer  or  drain  with- 
out first  obtaining  a  permit  in  writing  from  said  board,  and  complying 
with  the  rules  and  regulations  of  said  board  in  reference  thereto. 

Sec.  25.  Hot  Air,  Gas,  Steam  or  Hot  AVater  in  Public  Sewers: — Air, 
gas,  steam  or  water  above  one  hundred  and  forty  degrees  Fahrenheit  in 
temperature  shall  not  be  discharged  into  any  public  sewer  or  into  any 
private  sewer  or  drain  connecting  with  such  public  sewer,  and  the  city 
council  shall  by  ordinance  prohibit  the  same. 

Sec.  26.  Rules  and  Regulations  as  to  Sewers  and  Drains: — Said 
board  shall  recommend  to  the  city  council  such  other  rules  and  regula- 
tions concerning  the  public  and  private  sewers  and  drains  in  said  city 
as  said  board  shall  deem  best. 

Sec.  27.  Purchase  or  Condemnation  of  Property  for  Sewers;  Title 
in  City: — The  city  council  may,  upon  the  recommendation  of  said  board, 
by  ordinance  passed  by  the  affirmative  vote  of  the  majority  of  all  the 
members  elected,  authorize  the  purchase  of  any  personal  property,  or 
the  acquisition  by  purchase  or  condemnation  of  any  real  estate,  which 
may  be  necessary  for  the  construction  of  any  sewers  or  the  making  of 
any  improvement  provided  for  in  this  article.  The  title  to  all  real 
estate  purchased  shall  be  taken  in  the  name  of  the  city. 


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Sec.  28.     Big-lits  of  Way  for  Sewers  Through  Private  Property: — • 

Said  board  may,  with  like  authorization  by  the  city  council,  agree  with 
the  owner  of  any  real  estate  over  or  through  which  it  is  deemed  de- 
sirable to  construct  any  sewer  or  other  improvement  related  to  sewerage 
or  drainage,  upon  the  amount  of  damage  to  be  paid  to  such  owner  for 
the  perpetual  use  of  said  real  estate  for  such  purpose. 

Sec.  29.  Construction  of  General  Sewerage  System: — Said  board 
shall,  when  authorized  by  ordinance  of  the  city  council,  construct  such 
sewers,  reservoirs  and  pumping  works,  whether  within  or  without  the 
city,  as  may  be  necessary  to  carry  out  the  general  system  of  sewerage 
of  the  city. 

Sec.  30.  Drainage  and  ('leaning-  of  Private  Property,  Assessment 
and  Collection  of  Cost: — The  city  council  shall  by  ordinance  provide 
that  the  owners  and  occupants  of  lands,  buildings  or  premises  within 
the  city,  at  their  own  expense,  properly  drain  the  same,  or  drain  or  clean 
any  vault,  cesspool,  ditch,  pipe  or  drain  therein  used  as  a  receptacle  or 
conductor  of  filth  or  refuse  matter,  and  that  all  expenditures  of  the  city 
in  draining  or  cleaning  private  premises  be  assessed  against  such 
premises.  Every  assessment  shall  be  a  lien  upon  the  premises  so  drained 
or  cleaned,  and  such  assessment  may  be  collected  and  the  lien  enforced 
by  a  suit  in  the  name  of  the  city. 

Sec.  31.  Subdivision  1.  Contractors'  Bonds;  Terms;  List  of 
Sureties'  Property;  Conditions: — Before  any  contract  for  the  doing  of 
any  work  or  labor,  or  furnishing  any  skill,  labor  or  material  to  or  for 
the  City  of  Seattle  shall  be  valid  or  binding  against  the  city,  the  con- 
tractor shall  enter  into  a  joint  and  several  bond  with  the  City  of  Seattle, 
for  the  use  of  the  city  and  also  for  the  use  of  all  persons  who  may  per- 
form or  cause  to  be  performed  any  work  or  labor,  or  furnish  or  cause 
to  be  furnished  any  skill,  labor  or  material  in  the  execution  of  such 
contract,  conditioned  to  perform  the  contract  according  to  its  terms, 
conditions  and  stipulations,  and  to  pay  as  they  become  due  all  just  claims 
for  all  work  and  labor  so  performed  and  all  skill  or  labor  and  material 
so  furnished  in  the  execution  of  such  contract,  and  to  comply  with  all 
the  requirements  of  the  charter  and  ordinances  of  the  city  and  the 
amendments  thereto,  which  bond  shall  be  in  an  amount  fixed  by  the 
board  of  public  works,  but  not  less  than  fifty  per  cent,  more  than  the 
contract  price  agreed  to  be  paid  for  the  performance  of  such  contract, 
and  shall  be  duly  signed  by  such  contractor  and  two  or  more  good  and 
sufficient  sureties,  and  after  being  approved  as  herein  provided,  shall 
be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  city  comptroller;  Provided,  That  before  ap- 
proving any  such  bond  the  mayor  and  comptroller  shall  cause  to  be 
tiled  with  and  preserved  by  them,  by  the  proposed  sureties,  a  list  of 
the  properties  owned  by  each  such  proposed  surety,  such  list  describing 
with  reasonable  certainty  the  various  properties  and  showing  whether 
the  same  is  community  property  or  separate  property  and  the  en- 
cumbrances thereon.  The  bond  shall  also  contain  any  other  conditions 
or  provisions  required  by  any  state  law,  and  such  bond  shall  be  deemed 
to  run  also  to  the  State  of  Washington. 


64  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    VIII. 

Subdivision  2.  Sureties;  Justification;  >'uinl(er: — The  sureties  on 
such  bond  shall  each  justify  as  bail  upon  arrest.  More  than  two  sureties 
may  be  accepted  on  such  bond,  and  they  may  justify  in  separate  and 
different  sums  less  than  the  sum  specified  in  such  bond;  Provided,  That 
the  aggregate  of  their  justification  shall  be  equal  to  two  sureties  justify- 
ing in  double  the  amount  of  the  bond  in  the  manner  herein  provided. 

Subdivision  3.  Approval  of  Form  and  Sureties;  Kejeetion  of  Sure- 
ties:— It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  corporation  counsel  of  said  city  to  see 
that  such  bond  is  fully  and  properly  executed  and  conforms  in  all  respects 
to  the  provisions  of  this  section;  and  thereupon  shall  indorse  upon  said 
bond  his  approval  of  the  form  thereof.  Such  bond,  and  the  sureties 
thereon,  shall  be  subject  to  approval  by  the  mayor  and  comptroller,  but 
they  shall  not  approve  any  such  bond  unless  the  said  corporation  coun- 
sel's approval  of  the  form  thereof  be  indorsed  thereon,  nor  unless  the 
sureties  on  such  bond  appear  personally  before  the  mayor  and  comp- 
troller if  required,  and  are  by  them  examined,  touching  their  fitness  and 
ability  to  become  sureties  on  such  bond;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such 
mayor  and  comptroller  to  reject  any  person,  notwithstanding  his  justi- 
fication subscribed  to  the  bond,  if  they  shall  deem  such  person  of  insuf- 
ficient ability  or  otherwise  unfit  to  become  a  surety  on  such  bond. 

Subdivision  4.     Assignment  of  Contracts;    Consent  of  Board   and 

Sureties: — No  contract  with  said  city  for  the  doing  of  any  public  work 
shall  hereafter  be  assigned  or  transferred  in  any  manner  without  first 
having  indorsed  thereon  the  consent  of  the  board  of  public  works,  and 
of  the  sureties  on  the  contractor's  bond,  and  no  transfer  or  assignment 
thereof  shall  in  anywise  affect  such  bond,  or  the  liability  of  the  sureties 
thereon,  and  any  assignment  or  transfer  without  such  consent  and 
waiver  indorsed  thereon,  except  by  operation  of  law,  of  any  such  con- 
tract, shall  make  the  same  null  and  void,  as  to  any  further  performance 
thereof  by  the  contractor  or  his  assigns  without  any  act  on  the  part 
of  the  city;  and  the  board  of  public  works  shall  at  once  proceed  to  re-let 
such  contract,  or  said  board  may,  in  its  discretion,  proceed  to  complete 
the  same  as  the  agent,  and  at  the  expense  of  feuch  contractor  and  his 
bondsmen. 

Assignment,  Transfer,  Al>an(lonment  or  Surrender  Not  to  Release 
Sureties: — No  assignment,  transfer,  abandonment  or  surrender,  either 
voluntary  or  otherwise,  of  any  contract  with  the  city  for  the  doing  of 
any  work  or  labor,  or  the  furnishing  of  any  work  or  labor,  skill  or  ma- 
terial, nor  any  change  in  any  such  contract,  nor  any  extension  of  time 
in  which  to  complete  any  such  contract,  shall  ever  operate  to  release  the 
sureties  on  the  bond  in  this  act  provided  for;  and  no  such  assignment, 
transfer,  abandonment,  surrender,  change  or  extension  of  time  shall 
ever  be  pleaded  as  a  defense  to  any  action  upon  such  bond  in  any  court 
in  this  state. 

Subdivision  5.  New  or  Additional  Bonds;  Forfeiture  of  Contract; 
Completion  of  Work; — The  board  of  public  works  may,  whenever  in 
their  judgment  one  or  more  of  the  sureties  on  such  bonds  have  become 
insolvent,  or  for  any  other  cause  are  no  longer  fit  and  sufficient  sureties. 


CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IX.  •  65 

require  any  such  contractor  to  file  a  new  or  additional  bond  within  ten 
days  after  notice  to  that  effect;  and  thereupon  all  work  on  such  contract 
shall  cease  until  such  additional  bond  shall  be  filed  with  the  city  comp- 
troller, and  if  any  such  contractor  shall  fail  for  ten  days  after  notice  to 
that  effect  to  file  a  new  or  additional  bond  as  aforesaid,  his  contract 
shall  by  that  fact  alone  become  fully  ended  and  void  as  to  future  perform- 
ance thereof  by  such  contractor,  and  thereupon  the  board  shall  proceed 
to  re-let  such  contract,  or  may,  in  its  discretion,  proceed  to  complete  the 
same  as  the  agent  and  at  the  expense  of  such  contractor  and  his 
bondsmen. 

Subdivision  6.  Completion  of  Abandoned  or  Forfeited  Contracts; 
Suits  to  Recover  Costs — If  any  such  contract  shall  for  any  reason  become 
ended  or  void,  and  the  board  of  public  works  shall  complete  the  same, 
as  in  this  section  provided,  and  the  costs  of  so  completing  such  contract 
shall  exceed  the  amount  unpaid  by  the  city  upon  such  contract  at  the 
time  the  same  shall  become  ended  or  void,  in  such  case  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  corporation  counsel  to  at  once  commence  an  action  in  the 
name  of  the  city  against  such  contractor  and  his  bondsmen  for  the  re- 
covery of  the  difference  in  amount  between  the  cost  of  so  completing 
such  contract  and  the  amount  unpaid  by  the  city  upon  such  contract  at 
the  time  the  same  became  ended  or  void. 

Contracts  with  Defaulting-  Contractors  Prohibited  Within  Two 
Years:- — The  board  of  public  works  is  hereby  prohibited  from  entering 
into  any  contract  for  the  doing  of  any  work  or  labor  or  the  furnishing 
of  any  skill  or  material  with  any  person  who,  within  two  years  prior 
thereto,  shall  have  made  default  in  the  payment  of  any  just  claim  for 
any  work  or  labor  performed  or  for  any  skill  or  material  furnished  pur- 
suant to  any  such  contract  with  such  party,  or  with  any  person  who 
within  two  years  prior  thereto  shall  have  assigned,  abandoned,  sur- 
rendered, or  failed  to  complete  any  such  contract,  except  as  herein  au- 
thorized, or  who  shall  have  failed  to  comply  with  any  of  the  provisions 
of  this  section. 

ARTICLE  IX. 

THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  FINANCE. 

Section  1.  Powers  and  Duties  of  City  Comptroller: — The  city 
comptroller  shall  exercise  general  supervision  over  the  financial  affairs 
of  the  city.  He  shall  number  and  keep  a  record  of  all  demands  allowed 
by  him,  showing  the  date  of  approval,  amount  and  name  of  original 
holder,  the  number,  on  what  account  and  out  of  what  fund  payable.  He 
shall  be  required  to  be  constantly  acquainted  with  the  exact  condition  of 
the  treasury.  He  shall,  on  or  before  the  5th  day  of  each  nionth,  or 
oftener,  if  required,  report  to  the  mayor  and  to  the  city  council  the  condi- 
tion of  each  fund  in  the  treasury.  He  shall  make  annual  reports  to  the 
city  council  and  to  the  mayor  on  his  request,  of  the  financial  condition 
and  requirements  of  the  city,  with  a  careful  statement  and  estimates 
of  the  receipts  and  expenditures.  He  shall  keep  a  complete  set  of  books 
by  double  entry  system  for  the  city,  in  which  shall  be  set  forth  in  plain 
and  businesslike  manner  every  money  transaction  of  the  city,  so  that 


66  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IX. 

he  can  at  any  time  tell  the  exact  condition  of  the  city's  finances.  He 
shall  make  an  annual  report,  showing  the  source  from  which  the  city's 
revenues  were  derived,  and  how^  expended.  He  shall  require  all  claims, 
returns,  settlements  and  reports  to  be  verified  by  affidavit.  He  shall 
issue  all  licenses  in  accordance  with  law  on  presentation  to  him  of  a 
receipt  from  the  city  treasurer,  showing  that  the  license  fee  has  been 
paid,  and  he  shall  sign  all  warrants  upon  the  treasurer,  except  as  other- 
wise provided  in  this  charter.      (As  (nneiided  Murch  S,  1010.) 

Sec.  2.     Administering  Oaths;  Seat  In  and  ^Fay  Address  Council: — 

The  city  comptroller  and  his  deputies  shall  have  authority  to  take  affi- 
davits and  administer  the  necessary  oaths  in  the  transaction  of  all  city 
business;  he  shall  have  a  seat  in  the  city  council,  with  the  right  to  speak 
on  any  question  pertaining  to  his  department,  but  shall  have  no  vote. 

Sec.  3.  Posting'  Salary  List: — He  shall  keep  publicly  posted  in  his 
office  a  list  of  all  persons  receiving  salaries  from  the  city,  with  the 
amount  of  monthly  salary  received  by  each  opposite  his  name,  which 
list  shall  be  revised  and  corrected  by  him  monthly,  and  be  at  all  times 
open  to  public  examination. 

Sec.  4.  Duties  by  Ordinance;  Appointment  of  Deputies: — He  shall 
perform  such  other  duties  as  this  charter  or  the  city  council  may  direct, 
and  may  appoint  one  chief  deputy,  and,  under  civil  service  rules,  such 
other  deputies  as  the  city  council  may  authorize. 

Sec.  5.  City  Treasurer;  ex-Officio  Tax  Collector: — There  shall  be  a 
city  treasurer,  who  shall,  except  as  otherwise  provided  by  law,  be  ex- 
officio  tax  collector,      (As  amended  March  3,  1908.) 

Sec.  6.  Duties;  Receive,  Keep  and  Pay  Out  3[oney  and  Keep  Ac- 
counts; Audited  Claims: — As  tax  collector,  the  city  treasurer  shall  per- 
form the  duties  provided  in  this  charter  and  by  the  general  laws  of  the 
state.  As  treasurer,  he  shall  receive,  keep  and  pay  out  all  moneys  be- 
longing to  the  city,  and  shall  keep  an  account  of  all  receipts  and  expen- 
ditures, under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed  by  ordi- 
nance, and  shall  do  all  things  required  of  him  by  this  chai'ter  or  the 
ordinances  of  the  city.  He  shall  not  pay  out  any  money  belonging  to 
the  city  except  upon  legal  demands  allowed  and  audited  in  the  manner 
prescribed  by  this  charter  or  by  law. 

Sec.  7.  Treasurer  Shall  Receipt  for  3Ioneys  and  Pay  Out  Same  on 
Warrants;  Daily  and  Weekly  Statements: — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
city  treasurer  to  receipt  for  the  moneys  of  the  city,  and  pay  out  the 
same  only  on  warrants  drawn  in  pursuance  of  the  order  of  the  ciiy 
council,  and  signed  and  registered  by  the  city  comptroller;  Provided.- 
that  the  city  council  may,  by  ordinance,  provide  that  such  warrants  may 
be  signed  by  a  duly  authorized  deputy  city  comptroller.  The  city  treas- 
urer shall  each  day,  except  Sundays  and  legal  holidays,  render  to  the 
city  comptroller  a  statement  of  the  balance  in  each  fund  of  the  treasury 
of  the  city.  He  shall  also  once  each  week  make  a  statement,  under 
oath,  to  the  city  comptroller,  showing  where  the  city  funds  are  then  kept, 
and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  comptroller  to  forthwith  verify  each 
such  statement.     He  shall  require  good  and  sufficient  bonds  for  his  own 


DEPARTMENT    OF    FINANCE.  67 

indemnification,  to  be  given  by  all  assistants  and  clerks  in  his  office  who 
shall  receive  or  have  care,  custody  or  handling  of  any  moneys  or  other 
valuable  thing  belonging  to  the  city,  which  bonds  shall  be  approved  by 
the  mayor,  and  may  be  security  indemnity  bonds. 

Calling  Warrants;  Stopping-  Interest;  Pul)lieation  of  Call;  Account 
to  Successor: — He  shall  issue  a  call  for  outstanding  warrants  on  any 
fund  upon  which  warrants  have  been  previously  presented  and  payment 
refused  for  want  of  funds,  whenever  there  may  be  one  hundred  dollars  of 
that  fund  in  the  treasury,  or  whenever  there  are  sufficient  funds  in  the 
treasury  to  pay  all  outstanding  warrants;  interest  to  cease  fifteen  days 
after  the  publication  of  the  first  notice.  Warrants  shall  be  paid  in  the 
order  of  their  number  and  date  of  issue,  and  shall  be  charged  to  their 
respective  funds.  Such  call  shall  be  made  by  publication  in  the  city 
official  newspaper  for  the  period  of  one  week,  and  shall  be  made  within 
fifteen  days  after  the  required  amount  of  money  is  in  said  fund.  He 
shall  account  for  and  pay  over  all  moneys  on  hand  as  such  treasurer  to 
his  successor  in  office,  and  deliver  all  books,  vouchers  and  effects  of  office 
to  him,  and  such  successor  shall  receipt  therefor.  (As  amended  March 
8,  1910.) 

Sec.  7-a.  Contingent  Fund  Established: — There  shall  be  estab- 
lished by  ordinance  a  contingent  fund,  into  which  shall  be  appropriated 
from  the  general  fund  such  sum  as  the  city  council  shall  designate  with 
which  to  pay  employes  of  the  city  discharged  between  regular  pay  days. 
Payments  shall  be  made  by  the  treasurer  from  said  fund  on  certification 
by  the  city  comptroller  of  amounts  due.  Said  fund  shall  be  reimbursed 
on  the  next  day  following  pay  day  by  transfer  thereto  from  the  funds 
liable  for  payments  made  therefrom.  Another  contingent  fund  shall  be 
established  into  which  shall  be  appropriated  from  the  general  fund  such 
sum  as  the  city  council  shall  designate,  to  be  used  for  the  payment  of 
freight  and  express  charges,  telegrams,  postage  and  incidental  expenses 
of  like  character  of  the  different  departments  of  the  city.  Payments 
shall  be  made  from  this  fund  by  the  treasurer  on  certification  of  the 
comptroller,  said  fund  to  be  reimbursed  monthly  from  funds  liable  for 
payments  therefrom.      (As  amended  March  8.  1910.     Adopted  1908.) 

Sec.  8.  City  Money  to  be  Paid  Treasurer;  Duplicate  Receipts,  Fail- 
ure, Penalty  for: — Every  oflficer  or  agent  of  the  city,  or  other  person  who 
shall  receive  or  have  in  his  hands  any  money  belonging  to  the  city,  shall 
immediately  pay  over  the  same  to  the  city  treasurer,  and  take  his  receipt 
therefor  in  duplicate,  one  of  which  receipts  shall  be  delivered  to  the  city 
comptroller  by  the  party  paying  over  the  money.  If  any  such  officer, 
agent  or  other  person  shall  fail  to  pay  over  to  the  city  treasurer  any 
moneys  so  received,  or  to  deliver  to  the  city  comptroller  such  receipt  of 
the  city  treasurer,  for  more  than  forty-eight  hours  after  the  money  or 
receipt  shall  have  been  received  by  him,  such  officer,  agent  or  other  per- 
son shall  forfeit  to  the  city  double  the  amount  of  money  so  received,  or 
for  which  such  receipt  was  given,  to  be  recovered  by  civil  action  brought 
by  the  city  against  him  in  a  court  of  competent  jurisdiction. 


68  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IX. 

Sec.  9.  Books  Open  to  Inspection: — The  treasurer's  books  shall, 
at  all  times  in  business  hours,  be  open  for  public  inspection,  subject  to 
such  reasonable  rules  and  regulations  as  the  city  council  shall  by  ordi- 
nance  prescribe. 

Sec.  10.  Annual  Estimate  of  Expenses  and  Revenues: — On  or  be- 
fore the  first  Monday  in  September  in  each  year,  the  comptroller  shall 
prepare  and  transmit  to  the  city  council,  accompanied  with  estimates 
and  reports  of  each  department,  which  he  shall  require  to  be  delivered  to 
him  from  the  heads  of  each  department  on  or  before  the  tenth  day  of 
August  of  each  year,  an  estimate  of  the  probable  necessities  of  the  city 
for  the  ensuing  fiscal  year,  giving  the  amount  required  to  meet  the  in- 
terest and  sinking  funds  for  any  and  all  outstanding  bonded  debts,  to- 
gether with  the  amount  needed  for  salaries  and  probable  wants  of  all 
departments  of  the  municipal  government  in  detail,  and  showing  the 
necessities  of  each  of  the  several  funds  to  be  provided  for  in  the  treasury. 
The  estimate  shall  also  show  as  nearly  as  may  be  what  amount  of  in- 
come and  revenue  is  likely  to  accrue  to  the  treasury,  and  be  collected 
from  fines,  licenses,  and  all  other  sources  of  revenue,  exclusive  of  tax 
on  property,  and  shall  give  an  estimate  of  what  amount  will  be  required 
to  be  levied  and  raised  by  tax  from  all  property  in  the  city,  in  order  to 
meet  the  necessities  of  such  fiscal  year,  said  estimates  to  be  based  upon, 
where  practicable,  the  resources  and  expenditures  of  the  current  fiscal 
year;  and  at  the  same  time  the  comptroller  shall  also  report  to  the  city 
council  the  balance  on  hand  in  each  fund. 

Sec.  11.  Fixing  Rate;  Levying  Taxes :^The  city  council  shall,  on 
or  before  the  first  Monday  in  December  in  each  year,  by  ordinance,  fix 
the  rate  of  taxes  to  be  levied,  and  levy  the  taxes  upon  all  taxable  prop- 
erty, both  real  and  personal,  in  the  city,  needed  to  raise  sufficient  reve- 
nue to  carry  on  the  different  departments  of  the  municipal  government 
for  the  ensuing  fiscal  year.  No  revenues  raised  by  tax  levy  shall  be  ap- 
propriated for  any  other  purpose  than  that  specified  in  such  levy,  except 
the  city  council  may,  by  ordinance  passed  by  a  three-fourths  vote  of  all 
members  elected,  appropriate  any  necessary  portion  of  such  revenues  for 
the  preservation  of  the  peace,  health  and  safety,  which  ordinance  shall 
declare  an  emergency,  shall  state  therein  the  facts  constituting  such 
emergency,  and  shall  specify  that  a  deficiency  is  thereby  created  which 
shall  be  provided  for  in  the  next  succeeding  tax  levy.  (As  amended 
March  7,  1911.) 

Sec.  12.  Auditing  Committee;  Members;  Organization;  3Ieetings; 
Examination,  Allowance  or  Rejection  of  Claims;  Quorum: — There  is 
hereby  created  an  auditing  committee,  which  shall  consist  of  the  mayor, 
president  of  the  city  council,  the  chairman  of  the  finance  committee 
thereof,  and  the  comptroller.  The  mayor  shall  be  the  chairman  of  the 
committee,  and  the  comptroller  shall  be  secretary,  but  in  the  absence  of 
either  from  any  meeting  of  the  committee  a  temporary  chairman  or 
secretary  may  be  chosen  by  the  committee  to  act  for  the  time  being. 
Said  committee  shall  hold  stated  meetings  once  in  each  month,  and  may 
adjourn  from  time  to  time.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  committee  to  ex- 
amine all  claims  and  demands  against  the  city  of  whatsoever  nature,  and 


DEPARTMENT    OF    FINANCE.  69 

to  recommend  to  the  city  council  the  allowance  or  disallowance  of  the 
same  or  any  part  thereof. 

Three  members  of  the  committee  shall  constitute  a, quorum  for  the 
transaction  of  business,  but  a  less  number  can  meet  and  adjourn  from 
time  to  time. 

Sec.  13.  Claims  Against  City;  Verification;  Filing;  Auditing;  Re- 
port to  Council: — All  demands,  bills  and  claims  which  may  arise  against 
the  city,  including  the  payment  of  all  employes  of  the  city,  whether  under 
regular  monthly  salary  or  not,  shall  be  duly  verified  as  hereinafter  pro- 
vided, and  be  filed  with  the  secretary  of  the  auditing  committee,  who 
shall  file  and  number  the  same  in  the  order  of  presentation,  and  refer 
the  same  to  the  auditing  committee  for  action,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
recommend  the  allowance  or  rejection  of  the  same  in  whole  or  in  part, 
and,  if  allowance  be  recommended,  to  designate  the  particular  fund  from 
which  they  are  to  be  paid,  and  indorse  upon  each  claim  or  demand  the 
date  of  the  recommendation  of  its  allowance  or  rejection,  the  amount 
to  be  allowed,  ^nd  also  the  section  of  the  charter,  number  of  ordinance, 
number  of  contract,  resolution  or  order  under  which  the  said  claim  or 
demand  was  authorized  or  contracted  for.  These  indorsements  shall 
be  verified  by  the  signature  of  the  chairman  and  secretary  of  the  audit- 
ing committee.  All  claims  or  demands,  after  being  audited  by  said 
committee  shall  be  forthwith  reported  to  the  city  council  for  final  action. 

Sec.  14.  Claims;  How  Verified  and  Itemized: — All  demands  and 
claims  against  the  city  hereinbefore  required  to  be  verified  shall  be  sub- 
scribed and  sworn  to  before  the  city  comptroller  or  one  of  his  deputies. 
or  some  officer  authorized  to  administer  oaths.  Each  claim  or  demand 
must  be  accompanied  by  a  detailed  statement  of  the  items,  which  shall 
be  attached  thereto  and  made  a  part  thereof. 

Sec.  15.  Record  of  Proceedings  of  Auditing  Committee: — The  sec- 
retary of  the  auditing  committee  shall  attend  all  meetings  of  said  com- 
mittee and  keep  a  correct  record  or  journal  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
committee. 

Sec.  16.  Funds  Established  and  Defined: — The  following  funds  are 
hereby  established: 

First.  Water  Fund;  Surplus: — The  water  fund,  into  which  shall  be 
paid  all  revenues  derived  from  the  water  department,  and  from  which 
shall  be  paid  all  expenses  of  operation  and  maintenance  of  the  water 
system.  Any  surplus  remaining  in  the  fund  at  any  time  after  the  pay- 
ment of  such  expenses  may  be  disposed  of  as  is  or  may  be  provided  by 
ordinance. 

'No  Ordinance  Invalidated:^ — ^Nothing  contained  in  this  subdivision 
of  section  16  shall  repeal  or  in  any  wise  invalidate  any  ordinance  or  plan 
or  scheme  proposed  thereby  heretofore  approved  by  the  electors  of  the 
city  upon  submission  thereof  to  them,  nor  to  prevent  any  modification 
or  amendment  of  such  ordinance,  plan  or  scheme,  upon  submission 
thereof  to  the  electors  of  the  city. 


70  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    IX. 

Second.  Park  Fund:^ — The  city  park  fund,  from  which  shall  be  paid 
all  expenses  incident  to  the  acquisition,  maintenance,  ornamentation 
and  improvement  of  the  parks,  park  drives,  boulevards,  and  public  places 
of  the  city. 

Third:  Library  Fund: — The  library  fund,  from  which  shall  be  paid 
all  expenditures  incident  to  the  Seattle  Public  Library. 

Fourth.  General  Fund;  Accounts: — The  general  fund,  into  which 
shall  be  paid  all  revenues  of  the  city,  except  as  otherwise  provided  by 
law,  and  from  which  shall  be  paid  all  expenses  and  liabilities  of  the  city 
which  are  not  payable  out  of  special  funds.  Such  accounts  shall  be  kept 
in  the  general  fund  with  the  several  departments  and  with  other  city 
expenditures,  as  may  be  prescribed  by  ordinance. 

Sec.  17.  Establishment  of  Other  Funds;  Existing- Funds  Continued; 
Distribution  of  Annual  Levy;  Transfer  of  Funds;  Certain  Transfers  Pro- 
hibited:-— The  city  council  may  from  time  to  time  establish  such  other 
funds  as  it  may  deem  necessary,  and  shall  establish  and  continue  in  force 
all  interest  funds,  bond  funds,  bond  redemption  funds,  and  other  funds 
now  or  hereafter  established  for  the  payment  of  interest  upon  and  the 
payment  of  bonded  indebtedness  of  the  city;  and  the  percentage  of  each 
annual  tax  levy  shall  be  named  for  each  fund,  and  the  whole  amount 
of  taxes  and  revenue  of  the  city  appropriated  to  said  several  funds 
accordingly;  and  no  transfer  shall  be  made  from  one  fund  to  another 
except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this  charter,  unless  by  an  afhrmative 
vote  of  a  majority  of  the  members  elected  of  the  city  council  by  ayes 
and  noes,  recorded  in  the  journal  of  proceedings,  and  in  no  case  shall 
any  moneys  be  transferred  from  any  fund  provided  for  the  payment  of 
any  interest  or  principal  of  any  bonded  indebtedness  then  existing,  nor 
from  the  library  fund  to  any  other  fund. 

Sec.  18.  Provisions  of  Previous  Charter  Relating-  to  Levy  and  Col- 
lection of  Taxes  Continued  in  Force  for  Certain  Purposes: — The  pro- 
visions relating  to  the  levy  and  collection  of  taxes  contained  in  Article 
IX.  of,  or  elsewhere  in  the  Charter  of  Seattle  which  is  superseded  by  this 
charter,  are  hereby  continued  in  force,  to  all  intents  and  purposes,  as  if 
expressly  re-enacted  herein,  in  so  far  as  may  be  necessary  or  proper  for 
the  enforcement  on  the  part  of  the  city  of  any  rights,  demands,  levies, 
claims,  moneys,  taxes,  interest  or  penalties  due  or  hereafter  to  become 
or  be  declared  due  to  the  city  under  such  provisions  or  under  any  past  or 
present  law  of  the  state  or  city,  and  the  same  shall  be  enforced  by  the 
collector  or  other  proper  officer  or  officers  herein  or  by  law  provided  for, 
and  the  title  or  inchoate  title  or  rights  of  the  city  in  or  to  all  lots  of  lands 
heretofore  sold  or  hereafter  to  be  sold  to  the  city  under  such  provisions, 
or  any  precedent  law  or  charter  may  be  perfected  under  such  provisions, 
precedent  law  or  charter,  as  fully  as  if  such  provisions,  precedent  law 
or  charter  were  herein  expressly  re-enacted. 


DEPARTMENT    OP    SANITATION.  71 

ARTICLE  X. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  SANITATION. 

Section  1.  Commissioner  of  Health;  Appoiutment,  Salary,  Term  of 
Office,  Duties  and  Powers;  Shall  Have  Powers  and  Perform  Duties  of 
Board  of  Health  and  Health  Oiftcer: — There  shall  be  a  commissioner  of 
health,  to  be  appointed  by  the  mayor,  subject  to  confirmation  by  the 
council,  who  shall  have  been  an  active  practitioner  of  medicine  for  five 
(5)  years.  The  salary  of  the  commissioner  of  health  shall  be  fixed  by 
ordinance.  He  shall  hold  office  for  five  (5)  years,  and  may  be  removed 
by  the  mayor  filing  notice  of  removal  with  the  city  council,  such  removal 
to  become  effective  upon  confirmation  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  city 
council.  The  commissioner  of  health  shall  have  supervision  and  control 
of  all  matters  appertaining  to  the  health  and  sanitation  affairs  of  the 
city,  including  such  hospitals  as  may  be  established  or  maintained  by 
the  city.  He  shall  be  the  executive  officer  of  the  department  of  health 
and  sanitation  and  see  that  all  provisions  of  the  charter  and  ordinances 
relating  to  the  health  and  sanitation  of  the  city,  and  such  rules  and 
regulations  as  he  may  prescribe,  are  enforced.  He  shall  appoint  all 
medical  assistants  and  nurses  employed  in  said  department,  and,  when- 
ever vacancies  may  occur  in  other  positions  now  existing  in  said  depart- 
ment and  any  additional  employes  hereafter  appointed,  other  than  medi- 
cal assistants  and  nurses,  such  vacancies  shall  be  filled  and  additional 
employes  appointed  by  the  commissioner  of  health,  subject  to  civil  service 
rules  and  regulations.  The  city  council  shall  forthwith  prescribe  by 
ordinance  the  duties  and  fix  the  salaries  of  the  officers  and  employes  of 
said  department.  All  powers  heretofore  vested  in  and  duties  imposed 
upon  a  board  of  health  and  (or)  health  officer  by  the  charter  and 
ordinances  of  the  city  are  hereby  exclusively  vested  and  imposed  upon 
the  commissioner  of  health.     (As  amended  March  3,  1908.) 

(l<iote.—Sec.  2  amended  1902.  *S'ecs.  2^  3  and  'i  were  superseded  l)y  Sec.  1, 
as  ahove.) 

Sec.  5.  Visits  to  and  Investigations  of  Public  and  School  Building's; 
Keports,  Statistics: — The  health  officer  shall  visit  the  public  buildings 
and  institutions  of  the  city  and  the  public  and  other  schools  within  the 
city  once  in  each  month  and  as  frequently  as  may  be  required  by  the 
board  of  health,  and  investigate  the  sanitary  condition  of  the  same,  and 
make  monthly  reports  of  such  examination  to  the  board  of  health.  He 
shall  also  make  to  the  board  a  monthly  and  annual  report  of  the  affairs 
of  his  office,  including  natal,  mortuary  and  other  sanitary  statistics. 

Sec.  6.  Vacation  of  Unsanitary  Buildings: — Whenever  the  health 
officer  shall  certify  to  the  board  of  health  that  any  building  or  any  part 
thereof  is  for  any  sanitary  cause  unfit  for  human  habitation,  said  board 
may  issue  an  order,  to  be  affixed  conspicuously  on  the  building,  and  where 
practicable,  to  be  served  on  the  owner,  agent  or  occupant,  requiring  all 
persons  to  vacate  such  building  or  apartment  at  and  until  such  time  as 
the  board  may  determine.  The  cause  of  vacation  shall  be  stated  in  the 
order. 


72  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    X. 

Sec.  7.  Infectious  Diseases;  Inspection;  Quarantine  Flag  and  Pla- 
card:— Whenever  a  case  of  smallpox,  yellow  fever,  Asiatic  cholera  or 
other  infectious  disease  is  reported  to  the  health  officer,  he  shall  imme- 
diately visit  the  premises  where  the  person  is,  and  if  he  shall  find  such 
reported  disease  or  any  infectious  disease  on  such  premises,  he  shall 
forthwith  cause  to  be  displayed  a  quarantine  flag  in  a  conspicuous  place 
on  said  premises,  and  post  upon  the  doorway  a  placard  setting  forth  the 
fact  that  infectious  disease  exists  therein  and  the  name  of  such  disease. 

Sec.  8.  Reports  to  Police,  Schools  and  Libraries: — The  health  of- 
ficer shall  immediately  report  to  the  chief  of  police,  city  school  superin- 
tendent, the  principals  of  private  and  other  schools  within  the  city  and 
the  librarian  of  the  Seattle  public  library,  the  names  and  residences  of 
every  person  sick  of  the  diseases  in  section  7  of  this  article  enumerated 
or  any  other  contagious  or  infectious  disease  he  may  deem  dangerous 
to  the  public  health. 

Sec.  9.     Schools  and  Libraries,  Admittance  to  Refused,  When: — It 

shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  school  superintendent,  the  principals  of 
private  and  other  schools  within  the  city,  and  the  librarian  of  the  Seattle 
public  library,  when  so  notified,  to  refuse  admittance  to  the  public  or 
private  or  other  schools  or  library  to  any  member  of  a  household  in 
which  any  of  the  aforesaid  diseases  are  found  until  advised  by  the  health 
officer  that  there  is  no  longer  any  danger  from  contagion. 

Sec.  10.  Physicians  and  Householders  to  Report  Infectious  Dis- 
eases:— Every  physician  in  the  city  shall  immediately  report  to  the 
health  officer  in  writing  every  patient  he  shall  have  sick  of  typhus, 
typhoid,  ship  or  yellow  fever,  Asiatic  cholera,  smallpox,  diphtheria  or 
scarlatina,  or  such  other  infectious  disease  as  is  or  may  be  specified  by 
ordinance,  and  shall  report  every  death  occurring  from  any  such  disease 
immediately;  also,  every  householder  in  the  city  shall  report  forthwith 
to  the  health  officer  the  name  of  every  inmate  of  his  or  her  house  whom 
he  or  she  shall  have  reason  to  believe  to  be  sick  of  any  such  disease, 
and  any  death  from  any  such  disease  occurring  at  his  or  her  house. 

Sec.  11.     Record  of  Births,  Deaths,  Interments  and  Cremations: — 

The  health  officer  shall  keep  a  record  of  all  births,  deaths,  interments 
and  cremations  occurring  in  the  city. 

Sec.  12.     Physicians  and  Midwives  to  Report  Births  and  Deaths: — 

All  physicians  and  midwives  in  the  city  shall  report  in  writing  to  the 
health  officer  within  twenty-four  hours  all  births  and  deaths  occurring 
in  his  or  her  practice. 

Sec.  13.  Establishment  and  3Iaintenance  of  Hospitals  and  Pest- 
houses: — The  board  of  health,  through  and  with  the  co-operation  of  the 
board  of  public  works,  with  the  consent  of  the  city  council,  may  locate, 
establish  and  maintain  hospitals  and  pesthouses  and  discontinue  and 
remove  the  same  whenever  necessary  for  the  preservation  of  the  public 


DEPARTMENT    OF    SANITATION.  73 

health,  and  may  appoint  and  remove  at  pleasm'e  such  physicians  and 
nurses  as  may  be  necessary  to  maintain  tlie  efficiency  of  the  same;  and 
may  cause  to  be  removed  thereto  and  l^ept  therein  any  person  affected 
with  any  contagious  or  infectious  disease. 

Sec.  14.  Kemoval  of  Persons  Having  Infectious  Disease;  Permit 
for  Required: — No  person  shall  remove  a  person  affected  with  any  con- 
tagious or  infectious  disease  from  any  house  or  place  within  the  city 
limits  to  any  other  house  or  place  without  the  written  permission  of 
the  health  officer. 

Sec.  15.  Sanitary  Inspector;  Inspector  of  Markets,  Sewers,  Plumb- 
ing-, Water,  Steam  and  Gas;  Police  Power;  Qualifications;  Duties  as 
Prescribed  by  Ordinance;  Council  May  Regulate  Plumbing: — The  board 
of  health  shall,  with  the  consent  of  the  city  council,  appoint  a  sanitary 
inspector,  who  shall  be  market  inspector,  inspector  of  sewers  and  in- 
spector of  plumbing,  of  water,  steam  and  gas  of  all  buildings  within  the 
city.  Such  inspector  shall  have  the  powers  of  a  policeman  and  must 
be  a  practical  plumber.  His  duties  shall  be  such  as  are  or  may  be  pre- 
scribed by  ordinance.  The  city  council  shall  by  ordinance  regulate  the 
plumbing  of  all  buildings  with  due  regard  for  the  health  of  the  city. 

Sec.  16.  Quarantine  and  Quarantine  0  ilcers: — The  board  of  health 
may  proclaim  such  quarantines  and  establish  and  declare  such  quar- 
antine districts  and  stations  as  may  in  its  judgment  be  necessary  for  the 
preservation  of  public  health,  and  may  appoint  and  remove  at  pleasure  a 
quarantine  officer. 

Sec.  17.     Vessels  From  Infected  Ports  Subject  to  Quarantine: — All 

vessels  arriving  at  the  port  of  Seattle  from  ports  which  have  been  legally 
declared  infected  ports,  and  all  vessels  arriving  from  any  place  where 
there  is  prevailing  at  the  time  of  departure  any  contagious,  infectious 
or  pestilential  disease,  are  subject  to  quarantine,  and  must  be  by  the 
master,  owner,  pilot  or  consignee  reported  to  the  quarantine  officer  with- 
out delay.  Such  a  vessel  must  not  cross  a  line  drawn  as  prescribed  by 
the  board  of  health  until  the  quarantine  officer  has  boarded  the  same 
and  given  the  order  required  by  law. 

Sec.  18.     Disposition  of  Sick  and  Deceased  Persons  From  Ships: — 

The  board  of  health  shall  make  rules  and  regulations  relating  to  the 
disposition  of  the  sick  and  deceased  arriving  on  any  ship  or  vessel,  and 
the  city  council  shall  provide  by  ordinance  for  the  recovery  of  all  ex- 
penses and  charges  incurred  in  their  treatment  or  burial. 

Sec.  19.     Quarantine  of  Railroads  and  Public  Conveyances:— ^The 

board  of  health  may,  when  they  deem  it  necessary,  require  all  railroad 
cars  or  other  public  conveyances,  before  the  same  shall  stop  at  any  depot 
or  station  in  the  city,  to  stop  at  any  locality  selected  and  established  for 
quarantine  purposes,  and  to  leave  there  all  such  persons,  with  their 


74  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    X. 

stores  and  baggage,  as  the  health  officer  shall  deem  necessary  so  to  be 
left  for  the  health  of  the  city. 

Sec.  20.  Quarautiue  Ilegulations;  Enforcement: — The  board  of 
health  shall  make  such  rules  and  regulations  for  the  government  of  the 
quarantine  or  the  health  of  the  city  as  from  time  to  time  the  public 
health  may  require,  and  the  physicians  or  health  officers  in  charge  of 
any  quarantine  station  or  place  shall  have  power  to  enforce  such  regula- 
tions as  may  be  necessary  for  the  proper  management  thereof,  and  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  all  persons  in  quarantine,  and  all  agents,  officers, 

policemen  or  others  employed  by  the  city  in  or  about  said  quarantine 
stations  or  places  to  carry  out  and  obey  the  same. 

Sec.  21.  Interment,  Disinterment  and  Removal  of  Bodies;  Certifi- 
cate and  Permit: — It  shall  be  unlawful  to  disinter  or  exhume  from  a 
grave,  vault,  cemetery  or  other  burial  place  within  the  city,  or  owned 
by  the  city,  or  to  deposit  therein,  or  remove  from  the  city,  the  body  of 
any  deceased  person,  without  first  causing  to  be  filed  at  the  health  office 
a  certificate  signed  by  a  legally  qualified  physician  or  coroner,  setting 
forth  as  nearly  as  possible  the  name,  age,  sex,  color,  place  of  birth,  occu- 
pation, date,  locality  and  cause  of  death  of  such  decedent,  and  obtain 
from  the  health  officer  a  written  permit  therefor. 

Sec.  22.  Becords  of  Permits,  Contents  of: — The  health  officer  shall 
prepare  a  book  of  blank  permits  in  proper  form  containing  stubs,  on 
which,  as  well  as  in  the  permits,  shall  be  entered  by  the  health  officer  a 
record,  giving  the  name,  age,  sex,  nativity,  cause  of  death  and  place  of 
burial  of  each  person  to  be  buried,  and  when  a  permit  is  issued  for  dis- 
interment, or  removal  of  remains,  the  records  shall  also  show  the  desti- 
nation of  the  remains. 

Sec.  23.  Enforcement  of  Health  Begulations;  Administering 
Oaths;  Powers  as  Prescribed  by  Ordinance;  3Iaintenance  of  Indigent 
Families  in  Quarantine: — The  city  council  shall  by  ordinance  provide 
for  the  enforcement  of  such  orders  and  regulations  as  the  board  of  health 
may  adopt  and  the  council  approve,  providing  also  for  all  expenses 
incurred  in  carrying  out  the  same.  And  in  addition  to  the  powers  in 
this  article  enumerated,  the  health  officer  and  the  members  of  the 
board  of  health  may  administer  oaths  on  matters  connected  with  the 
department,  and  shall  have  such  other  powers  and  authority  as  may* 
be  prescribed  by  ordinance  of  the  city  council  or  by  general  law.  The 
city  council  shall  provide  for  the  maintenance  of  all  indigent  families 
during  the  continuance  of  their  enforced  quarantine. 

Sec.  24.  Council  to  Provide  Penalties: — The  city  council  shall  pass 
all  such  ordinances,  and  provide  therein  such  penalties  as  will  carry  out 
the  intent  and  enforce  the  provisions  of  this  article. 


THE    FIRE    DEPARTMENT.  75 

ARTICLE  XL 

THE  FIRE  DEPARTMENT. 

Section  1.  Fire  Department,  How  Constituted: — There  shall  be  a 
fire  department,  which  shall  consist  of  a  chief  of  the  fire  department, 
and  as  many  subordinate  officers  and  firemen  as  the  city  council  shall 
from  time  to  time  by  ordinance  prescribe. 

Sec.  2.  Appointment  of  Chief: — The  mayor  shall  appoint  the  chief 
of  the  fire  department,  and  may  remove  him,  in  his  discretion,  upon 
filing  a  statement,  in  writing,  of  his  reasons  therefor  with  the  city  coun- 
cil. In  case  the  chief  of  the  fire  department  shall  have  been  appointed 
from  the  classified  civil  service,  he  shall,  upon  retirement  from  the  office 

of  chief,  be  entitled  to  resume  his  former  position  in  the  classified  ser- 
vice; and  the  last  appointee  to  the  position  from  which  said  chief  was 
appointed  and  the  last  appointees  in  positions  subordinate  thereto  shall 
resume  their  former  positions  respectively  in  the  classified  civil  service. 
(As  amended  March  5,  1912.) 

Sec.  3.  Chief  to  ^lanage  Department: — The  fire  department  shall 
be  under  the  management  of  the  chief  of  the  fire  department,  except  as 
otherwise  provided  by  law  or  in  this  charter. 

Sec.  4.  First.  Rules  for  Fire  Department:^ — The  mayor  shall  pre- 
scribe rules  and  regulations,  not  inconsistent  with  law  and  the  ordi- 
nances of  the  city,  for  the  government  and  control  of  the  fire  depart- 
ment, and  fix  and  enforce  penalties  for  their  violation. 

Second.  Appointment  of  Subordinates: — The  chief  of  the  fire  de- 
partment shall,  subject  to  the  civil  service  rules,  appoint  subordinate 
officers  and  firemen. 

Third.  Monthly  Statement  and  Estimate: — The  chief  shall  make 
a  monthly  statement  of  expenditures  of  the  department  to  the  board 
of  public  works,  and  also  furnish  to  said  board  an  estimate  of  the  needs 
of  his  department  for  the  ensuing  month  with  such  recommendations  as 
he  may  deem  proper  for  the  betterment  of  the  service. 

Fourth.  Annual  Report  and  Estimate  :^ — The  chief  of  the  fire  de- 
partment shall  make  annually,  or  oftener  if  required  by  the  council,  or 
if  he  may  deem  best,  a  report  to  the  city  council  of  any  municipal  legis- 
lation by  him  deemed  necessary  to  improve  the  condition  and  admin- 
istration of  the  fire  department,  and  shall  report  in  like  manner  fully 
to  the  city  council  the  business  and  condition  of  the  fire  department, 
showing  the  number  of  alarms  responded  to,  the  estimated  loss  by  each 


76  CHARTER.    ARTICLE    XI. 

iire  during  the  year,  with  the  cause  thereof,  with  such  other  informa- 
tion as  he  can  furnish  tending  to  throw  light  upon  the  advancement  or 
improvement  of  the  department  and  the  necessities  thereof;  also  an 
estimate  of  money  required  to  pay  salaries  and  expenses  of  the  fire 
department  for  the  ensuing  fiscal  year,  specifying  in  detail  the  items 
for  which  the  same  will  be  required. 

Fifth.     Powers  and  Duties  of  Chief  as  Prescribed  by  Ordinance: — 

The  chief  shall  have  such  further  powers  and  be  subject  to  such  further 
duties  as  may  be  granted  or  imposed  by  the  city  council,  except  as  other- 
wise in  this  charter  provided. 

Sixth.  Inspection,  Record  and  Report  of  Buildings  Without  Fire 
Protection: — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  chief  of  the  fire  department  to 
inspect  and  keep  a  record  of  all  new  buildings  in  course  of  erection  in 
the  city,  and  report  to  the  city  council  any  building  in  process  of  con- 
struction or  completed  without  the  fire  protection  and  escapes  prescribed 
by  law. 

Seventh.  Record  and  Report  of  Conduct  of  Firemen: — The  chief 
of  the  fire  department  shall  keep  a  record  of  the  conduct  of  men  in 
the  department,  and  send  a  copy  of  same  monthly  to  the  secretary  of 
the  civil  service  commission,  keeping  said  record  in  accordance  with 
the  rules  of  and  upon  forms  supplied  by  said  commission. 


ARTICLE  XII. 

THE  HARBOR  DEPARTMENT. 

Section  1.  Council  to  Control  Harbor  and  Water  Front: — The  city 
council  shall,  unless  otherwise  prescribed  by  the  laws  of  the  state,  ex- 
ercise control  and  management  of  the  harbor  and  water  front  of  the 
City  of  Seattle,  and  shall,  by  ordinance,  establish  such  rules  and  regula- 
tions as  shall  prevent  any  encroachment  upon  the  tidal  area  of  the  same. 

Sec.  2.  Construction  and  Repair  of  Wharves: — The  construction 
of  all  wharves  which  may  be  built  by  the  city,  and  all  repairs  on  the 
same,  or  other  work  done  on  the  water  front  by  the  city,  shall  be  per- 
formed by  the  board  of  public  works,  after  proceedings  had  in  the  man- 
ner and  form  prescribed  for  the  construction,  improvement  and  repair 
of  public  buildings. 

Sec.  3.  Reg-ulation  of  Wharves  and  Wharfage: — The  city  council 
shall,  by  ordinance,  regulate  the  tolls  for  wharfage,  dockage  and  other 
charges  at  all  wharves,  slips,  docks  and  landing  places  within  the  city, 
and  provide  for  the  regulation  of  berths  and  landing  of  all  steamers,  sail 
vessels,  barges  or  other  water  craft,  and  shall  exercise  in  regard  to  all 
such  wharves,  slips,  docks  and  landing  places  such  other  control  not 


HARBOR  AND  PARKS  DEPARTMENT.  77 

herein  specified  as  shall  not  be  inconsistent  with  the  laws  of  the  United 
States  and  of  the  State  of  Washington. 

Sec.  4.     Wharves,  Docks,  Slips  and  Landing  Places  in  Streets: — 

The  city  council  may  by  ordinance  order  the  construction  of  wharves, 
slips,  docks  or  landing  places  upon  any  streets  abutting  upon  or  leading 
into  any  navigable  waters  within  the  city,  which  wharves,  slips,  docks 
and  landing  places,  when  so  constructed,  shall  remain  under  the  exclu- 
sive control  of  the  city. 

Sec.  5.  Port  Warden: — The  mayor,  by  and  with  the  advice  and 
consent  of  the  city  council,  shall  appoint  a  port  warden,  who  shall  per- 
form such  duties  not  inconsistent  with  this  charter,  in  relation  to  har- 
bors and  wharves,  as  may  be  prescribed  by  ordinance,  and  who  shall  be 
deemed  the  head  of  the  harbor  department. 


ARTICLE  XIII. 
DEPARTMENT  OF  PARKS. 

Section  1.  Park  Fund:- — There  shall  be  a  park  fund,  which  shall 
consist  of — 

First.  Gifts: — Such  gifts,  bequests  and  devises  as  may  be  given, 
bequeathed  or  devised  to  the  City  of  Seattle  for  the  purpose  of  parks, 
parkways,  boulevards,  public  squares,  play  or  recreation  grounds,  or 
any  ornamentation  thereof. 

Second.  Fines  and  Licenses: — Ten  per  cent,  of  the  gross  receipts 
of  the  city  from  all  fines,  penalties  and  licenses. 

Third.  Bents: — The  rents,  issues  and  profits  derived  from  any 
property  which  may  be  held  or  owned  in  trust  for  said  city  for  squares, 
parks,  parkways,  boulevard  purposes,  and  for  play  or  recreation  grounds. 

Fourth.  Appropriations: — Any  appropriation  that  the  city  council 
nxay  make  for  said  fund  from  time  to  time. 

Fifth.  Tax  Levy: — Such  annual  tax  levy  not  less  than  three-quar- 
ters of  a  mill  and  not  to  exceed  one  mill  on  the  dollar,  as  may  be  provided 
by  the  city  council.     (Adopted  March  8,  1904.) 

Sec.  2.  Board  of  Park  Commissioners;  Elig-ibility;  Appointment; 
Term;  Compensation;  Oath  of  Office;  Organization: — There  shall  be  five 
park  trustees  who  shall  constitute  and  be  known  as  the  board  of  park 
commissioners.     No  person  shall  be  eligible  for  the  office  of  park  trustee 


78  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    XIII. 

unless  he  shall  have  been  for  three  years  prior  to  the  date  of  his  appoint- 
ment a  bona  fide  resident  and  citizen  of  Seattle.  The  members  of  the 
present  board  of  park  commissioners  shall  serve  as  trustees  hereunder 
until  their  respective  term  of  office  expires.  Upon  a  vacancy  by  resigna- 
tion, death  or  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  office,  or  otherwise,  of  any 
trustee,  his  successor  shall  be  appointed  by  the  mayor  by  and  with  the 
approval  of  a  majority  of  the  members  of  the  city  council,  and  where 
such  trustee  is  appointed  to  fill  a  vacancy  caused  by  death  or  resignation, 
he  shall  serve  for  the  unexpired  term  of  his  predecessor.  All  trustees 
appointed  upon  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  office  of  any  trustee  shall 
serve  for  a  term  of  five  years  from  the  first  Monday  in  May  of  the  year 
in  which  he  was  appointed  or  until  his  successor  is  selected  and  has 
qualified.  Said  trustees  shall  devote  such  tim^'  and  attention  to  the 
duties  of  their  office  as  an  efficient  performance  thereof  may  demand 
and  require,  and  their  services  shall  be  without  compensation.  Each 
trustee  appointed  or  selected  to  serve  upon  said  board  before  proceed- 
ing upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  shall  qualify  by  making  oath  or  affirma- ' 
tion  before  the  city  clerk.  The  trustees  shall  annually  organize  by 
selecting  one  of  their  members  as  president.     (Adopted  March  8,  190-i.) 

Sec.  3.  3Iaiiagement,  Control  and  Improvement  of  Parks;  Conces- 
sions; Liquors;  Exclusion  of  Traffic;  Park  Police: — The  management 
and  control  of  all  the  public  squares  and  parks  of  the  city  and  of  all  park 
drives,  parkways,  boulevards,  play  or  recreation  grounds  of  the  city, 
are  hereby  vested  in  the  board  of  park  commissioners.  It  shall  have 
power  to  designate  lands  and  grounds  to  be  used  and  appropriated  for 
such  purposes;  to  cause  the  same  to  be  platted  and  surveyed  and  the 
plats  thereof  filed  in  the  office  of  the  board  of  public  works,  or  in  the 
office  of  the  city  engineer;  to  devise,  adopt  and  lay  out  parks,  squares, 
park  drives,  parkways  and  boulevards,  play  and  recreation  grounds  in 
and  adjacent  to  the  city,  and  from  time  to  time  extend  the  same  and 
add  thereto;  to  grade,  improve,  ornament  and  maintain  the  same;  to 
erect  and  maintain  buildings,  monuments  and  structures  therein,  and 
shall  have  power  of  censorship  over  any  statuary,  monuments  or  works 
of  art  that  may  be  presented  to  the  city,  and  shall  in  the  name  of  the 
city  accept  all  devises  and  bequests;  to  provide  for  securing,  growing 
and  maintaining  trees;  plants,  flowers,  zoological  collections  and  other 
attractions  therein;  to  grant  concessions  and  privileges  therein  under 
such  restrictions  and  for  such  compensation  as  it  shall  prescribe,  the 
revenue  of  which  shall  go  into  the  city  park  fund;  Provided,  That  no 
such  concession  or  privilege  shall  ever  be  granted  for  the  sale  of  any 
intoxicating  liquors  in  any  public  park,  square,  play  or  recreation  ground, 
park  drive,  parkway  or  boulevard  of  the  city.  It  may  exclude  from  any 
or  all  the  parks,  squares,  park  drives,  parkways  and  such  boulevards  as 
are  principally  used  for  pleasure  driving,  any  vehicle  or  classes  of  traffic 
which  in  its  judgment  may  be  improper  for  or  detrimental  to  the  same, 
or  injurious  to  the  improvements  therein;  it  may  appoint  or  cause  to 
be  appointed  policemen  for  the  special  enforcement  therein  of  the  park 
regulations  of  the  city,  to  be  known  as  park  police,  and  to  be  paid  out  of 
the  city  park  fund. 


THE    PARK    DEPARTMENT.  79 

Designation  of  Streets  as  Park  Drives  and  Boulevards;  Payment  of 
Damages: — The  board  shall  have  power  to  designate  to  the  city  council 
any  street  or  highway  of  the  city  which  it  may  desire  to  have  widened, 
improved  and  selected  as  a  park  drive,  parkway  or  boulevard,  and  the 
city  council  may  thereupon,  by  ordinance,  so  select  such  street  to  be  used 
for  a  park  drive,  parkway  or  boulevard,  but  before  taking  possession 
thereof  for  such  purpose  it  shall  take  or  cause  to  be  taken  proper  pro- 
ceedings as  required  by  law  for  the  ascertainment  and  payment  to  the 
proper  parties  of  the  damage,  if  any,  which  will  result  to  the  property 
to  be  affected  thereby,  and  after  the  payment  of  such  damages,  or  the 
lawful  ascertainment  that  no  damage  will  be  caused  thereby,  such  street 
or  highway  shall  become  and  be  for  all  purposes  a  park  drive,  parkway 
or  boulevard,  as  may  have  been  determined,  and  thereafter  the  same 
shall  be  subject  to  all  rules  and  regulations  as  may  from  time  to  time 
be  in  force  therefor.     (Adopted  March  8,  1904.) 

Sec.  4.  Purchase  of  New  Parks;  May  Be  Mortgaged;  Terms  of 
Mortgage: — Said  board  of  park  commissioners  shall  have  power  to  des- 
ignate from  time  to  time  to  the  city  council,  such  property  as  it  may 
desire  the  city  to  acquire  for  park,  parkway,  boulevard,  squares,  play  or 
recreation  ground  purposes,  and  the  city  council  may  thereupon,  by 
ordinance,  authorize  said  board  to  acquire  said  property  or  may  by  ordi- 
nance direct  that  said  land  be  condemned  in  the  manner  provided  by  law. 
Said  city  council  may  by  ordinance  authorize  the  board  of  park  com- 
missioners in  the  purchase  of  property  for  the  purposes  designated  in 
this  article,  to,  in  the  name  of  the  city,  give  back  a  mortgage  or  mort- 
gages to  secure  the  unpaid  purchase  price;  Provided,  however,  no  per- 
sonal or  general  liability  on  the  part  of  the  city  shall  be  created  by 
any  such  contract  beyond  the  money  then  in  the  park  fund  available 
therefor;  and  provided  further,  that  there  shall  be  no  express  or  implied 
agreement  in  any  such  mortgage  nor  any  separate  instrument  given  for 
the  payment  of  the  sums  secured  thereby,  but  the  remedy  of  the  mort- 
gagee shall  be  confined  to  the  property  mortgaged.  (Adopted  March 
8.  190-',.) 

Sec.  5.  Improvement  Before  Title  Acquired: — Before  the  city  shall 
become  possessed  of  an  unincumbered  title  in  fee  to  any  property  for 
park  purposes,  the  board  of  park  commissioners  shall  not  in  any  one 
year  expend  in  the  improvement  of  such  property  more  than  ten  per 
cent,  of  the  cost  thereof,  nor  shall  it  erect  upon  incumbered  property 
any  permanent  structure.      (Adopted  March  8, 190'/.) 

Sec.  6.  Annual  Report: — The  board  of  park  commissioners  shall 
annually  on  or  before  the  10th  day  of  August  of  each  year  transmit  to 
the  mayor  a  detailed  report  of  all  work  and  improvements  made  during 
the  year  last  expired  in  parks,  parkways,  boulevards,  squares  and  play 
or  recreation  grounds  of  the  city.     (Adopted  March  8, 190'/.) 

Sec.  7.  Employes;  Annual  Estimate: — The  board  of  park  commis- 
sioners shall,  subject  to  civil  service  regulations,  have  exclusive  power 


80  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    XIV. 

to  employ  and  pay  all  such  superintendents,  employes  and  other  persons 
as  it  may  deem  necessary  for  maintaining,  improving  and  controlling 
all  park  property,  and  it  shall,  on  or  before  the  10th  day  of  August  of 
each  year,  prepare  and  submit  to  the  city  council  for  approval  and 
adoption,  an  estimate  of  the  amount  of  money  which  may  be  required 
for  the  improvement  and  maintenance  of  parks,  parkways,  public  squares, 
boulevards  and  play  or  recreation  grounds  for  the  succeeding  year. 
(Adopted  March  8,  1908.) 

Sec.  8.  Expendiuj^  Park  Fund;  Clerk  of  Park  Board;  Expenditure 
of  Vouchers;- — The  board  of  park  commissioners  shall  alone  have  au- 
thority to  expend  the  park  fund,  and  the  city  clerk  of  the  City  of  Seattle 
shall  be  clerk  of  the  park  board,  and  all  expenditures  on  account  of  prop- 
erty or  work  designated  in  this  article  shall  be  made  upon  vouchers  ap- 
proved by  the  board  of  park  commissioners  through  its  president  and 
secretary.  Each  voucher  shall,  when  accompanied  by  a  detailed  state- 
ment of  such  expenditures,  be  certified  to  the  city  comptroller,  who  shall 
issue  his  warrant  therefor  to  the  city  treasurer,  and  the  same  shall  be 
paid  by  the  treasurer  out  of  any  money  in  the  park  fund  not  otherwise 
appropriated.     (Adopted  March  8,  1904.) 

Sec.  9.  All  parts  of  the  charter  of  said  City  of  Seattle  in  conflict 
with  this  amendment  are   hereby  repealed.     (Adopted  March  8,  190^.) 


ARTICLE  XIV. 

THE  LIBRARY  DEPARTMENT. 

Section  1.  Library  Fund; — There  shall  be  a  library  fund,  which 
shall  consist  of — 

First.  Gifts; — Such  gifts,  bequests  and  devises  as  may  be  given, 
bequeathed  or  devised  to  the  City  of  Seattle  or  any  trustee  for  the  uses  or 
purposes  of  the  Seattle  Public  Library. 

Second.  Fines  and  Licenses; — Ten  per  cent,  of  the  gross  receipts 
of  the  city  from  all  fines,  penalties  and  licenses. 

Third.  Rents; — The  rents,  issues  and  profits  derived  from  any 
property  which  may  be  held  or  owned  in  trust  for  said  library  by  the 
city  or  any  other  trustee. 

Fourth.  Appropriations; — Any  appropriation  that  the  city  council 
may  make  for  said  fund  from  time  to  time. 

Fifth.  Tax  Levy; — Such  annual  tax  levy  as  the  city  council  may 
provide.      (As  amended  March  '/,  190.2.) 


THE    LIBRARY    DEPARTMENT.  81 

Sec.  2.  Title  to  Property: — The  title  of  all  property  belonging  to 
the  Seattle  Public  Library  shall  be  and  remain  in  the  name  of  the  city 
and  shall  be  held  inviolable  in  trust  for  the  use  and  benefits  of  said  library. 
(As  amended  March  -),  1902.) 

Sec.  3.  Library  Board;  Appointment;  Terms: — There  shall  be 
seven  library  trustees,  who  shall  constitute  and  be  known  as  "The 
Library  Board,"  and  be  the  governing  body  of  the  library.  The  mayor, 
with  the  consent  of  the  city  council,  shall  appoint  seven  trustees,  each 
of  whom  shall  hold  office  for  seven  years  without  compensation,  and  be 
subject  to  removal  by  the  mayor.  The  present  library  commission,  to- 
gether with  two  new  commissioners  to  be  appointed  by  the  mayor,  one 
for  the  term  of  six  years  and  one  for  the  term  of  seven  years,  beginning 
April  1st,  1902,  shall  be  the  first  library  board,  and  the  present  commis- 
sioners shall  continue  to  hold  office  as  such  trustees  until  the  first  day 
of  April  next  succeeding  the  expiration  of  their  respective  terms  as  com- 
missioners, and  the  mayor  shall  hereafter  annually  appoint  one  trustee 
for  the  term  of  seven  years,  beginning  on  the  first  day  of  April,  each  year. 
(As  amended  March  4?  1902.) 

Sec.  4.     Librarian,  Election  of;  Removal  and  Qualifications: — The 

librarian  shall  be  elected  by  the  board  and  subject  to  removal  by  it,  and 
shall  possess  such  qualifications  with  respect  to  experience,  ability,  citi- 
zenship, electoral  capacity  and  residence  as  the  board  may  require. 
Under  civil  service  rules  he  shall,  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the  library 
board,  have  the  appointment  and  removal  of  all  subordinate  employes 
of  the  library.      (As  amended  March  S,  190S.     Cf.  Am.  1902.) 

Sec.  5.  Manag'ement  of  Library;  Expenditures: — The  library  board 
shall  have  the  management  and  control  of  the  public  library  as  provided 
by  the  laws  of  the  State  of  Washington,  and  shall  alone  have  authority 
to  expend  the  library  fund;  and  the  board  shall  certify  every  such  ex- 
penditure to  the  city  comptroller,  who  shall  issue  his  warrants  therefor 
to  the  city  treasurer,  and  the  same  shall  be  paid  by  the  treasurer  out  of 
any  money  in  the  library  fund,  not  otherwise  appropriated.  Except  as 
herein  provided,  the  powers  and  duties  of  the  library  board  and  the 
management  of  the  public  library  shall  be  according  to  the  other  pro- 
visions of  this  charter,  and  the  laws  of  said  state.  (As  amended  March 
Jf,  1902.) 

(Sees.  6  and  1,  superseded  hy  a mendments  of  March    '/,  1902.) 


ARTICLE  XV. 

THE  LAW  DEPARTMENT. 

Section  1.     Officers;     Appointment:     Removal: — The   law   depart- 
ment of  the  City  of  Seattle  shall  consist  of  a  corporation  counsel,  assist- 


82  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    XVI. 

ant  corporation  counsel  and  a  city  attorney.  The  corporation  counsel 
shall  appoint  the  assistant  corporation  counsel  and  city  attorney,  and 
remove  them  at  his  pleasure. 

Sec.  2.  Qualifications: — The  corporation  counsel  shall  be  an  at- 
torney of  the  supreme  court  of  this  state,  and  have  been  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession  in  the  City  of  Seattle  for  at  least  four  years  next  prior 
to  his  election. 

Sec.  3.  Duties  of  Corporation  Counsel: — The  corporation  counsel 
shall  have  full  supervisory  control  of  all  the  litigation  of  the  city,  or 
in  which  the  city  or  any  of  its  departments  are  interested,  and  shall 
perform  such  other  duties  as  are  or  shall  be  prescribed  by  ordinance. 

Sec.  4.  Duties  of  Assistants  and  City  Attorney: — The  assistant  cor- 
poration counsel  and  the  city  attorney  shall  perform  such  duties  as  shall 
be  required  by  the  corporation  counsel  or  by  any  ordinance  of  the  city. 


ARTICLE  XVI. 
CIVIL  SERVICE  DEPARTMENT. 

Section  1.  Commissioners;  Appointment;  Terms;  Vacancies;  Poli- 
tics; Reappointment;  Quorum: — The  mayor  shall  appoint  three  persons 
who  shall  constitute  and  be  known  as  the  civil  service  commission,  one 
for  three  years,  one  for  two  years  and  one  for  one  year,  from  the  first 
day  of  January,  1896;  each  year  thereafter,  the  mayor  shall  in  like  man- 
ner appoint  one  person  as  the  successor  of  the  commissioner  whose  term 
of  office  shall  expire  with  the  preceding  year,  to  serve  as  such  commis- 
sioner for  three  years.  Appointments  to  fill  vacancies  shall  be  for  the 
unexpired  term.  All  appointments  to  said  commission,  both  original 
and  to  fill  vacancies,  shall  be  so  made  that  not  more  than  two  members 
shall  at  the  time  of  appointment  be  members  of  the  same  political  party. 
Any  commissioner  whose  term  shall  expire  shall  be  eligible  to  reappoint- 
ment.    Two  of  said  commissioners  shall  constitute  a  quorum. 

Sec.  2.  Commissioners;  Removal;  Fillinar  Vacancies: — The  mayor 
may,  in  his  discretion,  remove  any  commissioner,  but  the  vacancy  thereby 
created  shall  be  filled  by  the  city  council.  The  mayor  shall  within  five 
days  report  in  writing  any  such  removal  to  the  city  council  with  his 
reasons  therefor,  but  the  commissioner  so  removed  shall  have  no  right  to 
a  trial,  hearing  or  appeal.  Vacancies  in  the  office  of  commissioner  oc- 
curring in  any  other  way  than  by  removal  by  the  mayor  shall  be  filled 
by  appointment  by  the  mayor. 

Sec.  3.  City  Employes;  Classification;  Appointment: — The  com- 
missioners shall  classify  all  the  offices  and  places  of  employment  in  the 


CIVIL    SERVICE    DEPARTMENT.  83 

city  with  reference  to  the  examinations  hereinafter  provided  for,  except 
the  offices  and  places  mentioned  in  section  11  of  this  article.  The  offices 
and  places  so  classified  by  the  commission  shall  constitute  the  classified 
civil  service  of  the  City  of  Seattle;  and  no  appointment  to  any  such  office 
or  place  shall  be  made  except  under  and  according  to  the  rules  herein- 
after mentioned. 

Sec.  4.  Rules  for  Examination,  Appointment,  Promotion  and  Re- 
moval:-— The  commission  shall  make  rules  to  carry  out  the  purposes  of 
this  article,  and  for  examinations,  appointments,  promotions  and  re- 
movals in  accordance  with  its  provisions,  and  the  commission  may,  from 
time  to  time,  make  changes  in  the  existing  rules. 

Sec.  5.  Publication  of  Rules: — All  rules  made  as  hereinbefore  pro- 
vided, and  all  changes  therein  shall  be  forthwith  printed  for  distribution 
by  the  commission,  and  the  commission  shall  give  notice  by  publication 
in  the  city  official  newspaper  of  the  place  where  said  rules  may  be  ob- 
tained, and  shall  also  give  notice  in  such  publication  of  the  time  when 
said  rules  shall  go  into  operation,  which  shall  not  be  less  than  ten  days 
subsequent  to  the  date  of  publication. 

Sec.  6.  Examinations;  Subject  Matter;  Not  Political  or  Religious; 
Appointment  of  Examiners;  Commissioners  May  Act;  Politics  of  Ex- 
aminers; Examination  Fee;  Preference: — All  applicants  for  offices  or 
places  in  the  classified  civil  service  shall  be  subjected  to  examination, 
which  shall  be  public,  competitive  and  open  to  all  citizens  of  the  United 
States  with  specified  limitations  as  to  residence,  age,  health,  habits  and 
moral  character.  Such  examinations  shall  be  practical  in  their  char- 
acter and  shall  relate  to  those  matters  which  will  fairly  test  the  rela- 
tive capacity  of  the  persons  examined  to  discharge  the  duties  of  the  po- 
sitions to  which  they  seek  to  be  appointed,  and  shall  include,  when  ap- 
propriate, tests  of  physical  qualifications,  health,  and  a  manual  or  pro- 
fessional skill.  No  questions  in  any  examination  shall  relate  to  political 
or  religious  opinion  or  affiliations.  The  commission  shall  control  all 
examinations,  and  may,  whenever  an  examination  is  to  take  place,  desig- 
nate a  suitable  number  of  persons,  either  in  or  not  in  the  official  service 
of  the  city,  to  be  examiners,  and  if  in  the  official  service,  it  shall  be  a 
part  of  their  official  duty,  without  extra  compensation,  to  conduct  such 
examinations  as  the  commission  may  direct  and  to  make  return  and 
report  thereof  to  the  commission,  and  the  commission  may  at  any  time 
substitute  any  other  person,  whether  or  not  in  such  service,  in  the  place 
of  any  one  so  selected.  The  commissioners  may  themselves  act  at  any 
time  as  such  examiners.  The  examiners  at  any  examination  shall  not 
all  be  members  of  the  same  political  party.  Every  applicant  for  ex- 
amination, except  laborers  and  applicants  for  promotion,  shall  pay  to 
the  city  treasurer  the  sum  of  one  dollar,  and  shall  not  be  examined  until 
he  or  she  exhibits  the  treasurer's  receipt  therefor.  Preference  in  em- 
ployment shall  at  all  times,  subject  to  such  examination,  be  given  to 
citizens  of  the  United  States  and  electors  of  the  city. 


84  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    XVI. 

Sec.  7.  Notice  of  Examinations: — Notice  of  the  time  and  place  and 
general  scope  of  every  examination  shall  be  given  by  the  commission  by 
publication  in  the  city  official  newspaper  two  weeks  preceding  such  ex- 
amination, and  such  notice  shall  also  be  posted  by  the  commission  in  a 
conspicuous  place  in  its  office  for  two  weeks  before  such  examination. 
Such  further  notice  of  examination  may  be  given  as  the  commission 
shall  prescribe. 

Sec.  8.  Kegister  of  Persons  Examined;  Rank;  Preference: — From 
the  returns  or  reports  of  the  examiners,  or  from  the  examination  made 
by  the  commission,  the  commission  shall  prepare  a  register  for  each 
grade  or  class  of  positions  in  the  classified  service  of  the  city  of 
the  persons  whose  general  average  standing  upon  examination  for 
such  grade  or  class  is  not  less  than  the  minimum  fixed  by  the  rules  of 
such  commission,  and  who  are  otherwise  eligible;  and  such  persons  shall 
take  rank  upon  the  register  as  candidates  in  the  order  of  their  relative 
excellence  as  determined  by  examination,  without  reference  of  priority 
of  time  of  examination.  Between  candidates  of  equal  standing,  pref- 
erence shall  at  all  times  be  given  to  citizens  of  the  United  States  and 
electors  of  the  city. 

Sec.  9.  Promotion,  Examination  for: — The  commission  shall  by 
its  rules  provide  for  promotions  in  the  classified  service,  on  the  basis  of 
ascertained  merit  and  seniority  in  service  and  standing  upon  examina- 
tion, and  shall  provide,  in  all  cases  where  practicable,  that  vacancies 
shall  be  filled  by  promotion.  All  examinations  for  promotion  shall  be 
competitive  among  such  members  of  the  next  lower  rank  established  by 
the  commission  for  each  department  as  desire  to  submit  themselves  to 
such  examination;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  commission  to  submit 
to  the  appointing  power  the  names  of  not  more  than  three  applicants, 
having  the  highest  rating,  for  each  promotion.  The  method  of  examin- 
ing and  the  rules  governing  the  same  and  the  method  of  certifying  shall 
be  the  same,  as  near  as  may  be,  as  provided  for  applicants  for  original 
appointment. 

Sec.  10.  Appointments  in  Classified  Service;  Notice  of  Vacancies; 
Certifying  Eligibles;  Number;  Appointments  on  Probation;  Inspection 
of  Elig-ibles;  Striking  Names  From  Register;  Discharge  of  Probationer; 
Emergency  Appointments: — The  head  of  the  department  or  office  in 
which  the  office  classified  under  this  act  is  to  be  filled  shall  notify  the 
commission  of  any  vacancy,  and  the  commission  shall  certify  to  the 
appointing  officer  the  names  and  addresses  of  the  three  candidates,  if 
there  shall  be  so  many  eligible,  standing  highest  upon  the  register  for 
the  class  or  grade  to  which  such  position  belongs,  except  that  in  cases 
of  laborers  where  a  choice  by  competition  is  impracticable,  the  com- 
mission may  provide  by  its  rules  that  selections  may  be  made  by  lot 
from  among  those  candidates  proved  fit  by  examination.  Where  there 
is  more  than  one  office  to  be  filled,  the  commission  may  certify  a  less 
number  than  three  for  each  office,  and  may  also  limit  the  number  of 
times  the  same  person  may  be  certified.     The  appointing  officer  shall 


CIVIL    SERVICE    DEPARTMENT.  85 

notify  the  commission  separately  of  each  position  to  be  filled,  and  shall 
fill  such  places  by  appointment  from  the  persons  certified  to  him  by  the 
commission  therefor,  which  appointment  shall  be  on  probation  for  a 
period  to  be  fixed  by  the  rules.  The  appointing  officer  may  require  the 
person  certified  to  come  before  him,  and  shall  be  entitled  to  inspect  such 
person's  examination  papers.  The  commission  may  strike  off  the 
names  of  candidates  from  the  register  after  they  have  remained  thereon 
for  a  time  to  be  limited  by  rule.  Before  the  expiration  of  the  period 
of  probation  the  head  of  the  department  or  office  in  which  a  candidate 
is  employed  may,  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the  commission,  discharge 
him  upon  assigning  in  writing  his  reasons  therefor  to  the  commission. 
If  he  is  not  then  discharged  his  appointment  shall  be  deemed  complete. 
To  prevent  the  stoppage  of  public  business,  or  to  meet  extraordinary 
exigencies,  the  head  of  any  department  may,  with  the  approval  of  the 
commission,  make  temporary  appointments  to  remain  in  force  not  ex- 
ceeding sixty  days,  and  only  until  regular  appointments  under  the  pro- 
visions of  this  article  can  be  made. 

Sec.  11.  Officers  Not  in  Classified  Service: — The  following  city  of- 
ficers shall  not  be  included  in  the  classified  civil  service:  All  elective 
officers,  the  assistant  corporation  counsel,  the  city  attorney,  the  city 
engineer,  the  superintendent  of  lighting  and  water  works,  the  superin- 
tendent of  streets,  sewers  and  parks,  the  members  of  the  board  of  health, 
the  health  officer,  the  employes  of  the  health  department  other  than 
sanitary  inspector,  the  library  commissioners,  the  park  committee,  the 
port  warden,  the  judges,  clerks  and  inspectors  of  election,  the  private 
secretary  of  the  mayor,  all  clerks  of  the  treasurer,  one  chief  clerk  of  the 
comptroller,  and  the  city  comptroller  for  the  first  term  under  this  charter 
hereinbefore  made  an  appointive  officer  for  that  period  shall  also  be 
excepted. 

Sec.  12,  Term  of  Office  iu  Classified  Service;  Removal  for  Cause, 
Investig-ation;  Reinstatement;  Suspension;  Power  to  Administer  Oaths 
and  Secure  Evidence;  Removal  of  Chief  of  Police: — Every  officer  or  em- 
ploye in  the  classified  civil  service  shall  hold  office  until  removed  or 
retired.  Any  ofpcer  or  employe  in  such  service  may  be  removed  by  the 
appointing  power  only  upon  the  filing  with  the  commission  of  a  state- 
ment in  writing  of  the  reasons  therefor.  Any  officer  or  employe  so  re- 
moved may  within  ten  days  after  his  removal  demand  an  investigation. 
The  commission  shall  forthwith  make  such  investigation  and  its  finding 
and  decision  shall  be  certified  to  the  appointing  officer,  and  if  the  re- 
moval is  not  sustained  thereby,  the  officer  or  employe  so  removed  shall 
at  once  be  reinstated.  Nothing  in  this  article  shall  limit  the  power 
of  any  officer  to  suspend  without  pay  a  subordinate  for  a  period  not 
exceeding  thirty  days.  In  the  course  of  any  investigation  each  mem- 
ber of  the  commission  shall  have  power  to  administer  oaths,  and  the 
commission  shall  have  the  power  to  require  the  attendance  of  any  officer 
or  employe  or  other  person  and  the  production  of  books  and  papers 
relevant  to  such  investigation.  The  provisions  of  this  section  shall 
not  apply  to  the  removal  of  the  chief  of  police. 


86  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    XVI. 

Sec.  13.  ]Votice  and  Record  of  Appointments,  Transfers,  Promo- 
tions, Besig-nations,  Vacancies  and  Creation,  Abolishment  or  Cliange  of 
Compensation  of  Positions: — Immediate  notice  in  writing  shall  be  given 
by  the  appointing  power  to  the  commission  of  all  appointments,  perma- 
nent or  temporary,  made  in  the  classified  civil  service  and  of  all  trans- 
fers, promotions,  resignations  or  vacancies  from  any  cause  in  such 
service,  and  of  the  date  thereof,  and  a  record  of  the  same  shall  be  kept 
by  the  commission.  When  any  place  of  employment  is  created  or  abol- 
ished or  the  compensation  attached  thereto  altered,  such  change  shall 
be  immediately  reported  in  writing  by  the  proper  head  of  department 
to  the  commission. 

Sec.  14.  Investig-ations  l>y  Commission: — The  commission  shall 
investigate  the  enforcement  of  this  article  and  of  its  rules  and  the  action 
of  the  examiners  herein  provided  for,  and  the  conduct  and  action  of  the 
appointees  in  the  classified  service,  and  may  inquire  as  to  the  nature, 
tenure  and  compensation  of  all  offices  and  places  in  the  public  service. 
In  the  course  of  such  investigations  each  commissioner  shall  have  the 
power  to  administer  oaths,  and  the  commission  shall  have  the  power 
to  require  the  attendance  and  testimony  of  any  city  officer  or  employe 
or  other  person,  and  the  production  of  books  and  papers  relevant  to 
such  investigation. 

Sec.  15.  Annual  and  Special  Reports: — The  commission  shall,  on 
or  before  the  first  day  of  January  of  each  year,  make  to  the  mayor  for 
transmission  to  the  city  council  a  report  showing  its  own  actions,  the 
rules  in  force,  the  practical  effects  thereof,  and  any  suggestions  it  may 
approve  for  the  more  effectual  accomplishment  of  the  purposes  of  this 
article.  The  mayor  may  require  a  report  from  the  commission  at  any 
other  time. 

Sec.  16.  Chief  Examiner;  Secretary;  Labor  Commissioner;  Em- 
ployment Office;  Fees;  Reports: — The  commission  shall  employ  a  chief 
examiner  to  superintendent  any  examination  held  under  this  article.  He 
shall  be  secretary  of  the  commission,  and  as  such  shall  keep  the  minutes 
of  its  proceedings,  preserve  all  reports  made  to  it  and  keep  a  record  of 
all  examinations  held  under  its  direction  and  perform  such  other  duties 
as  the  commission  may  prescribe.  He  shall  be  ex-officio  labor  commis- 
sioner for  the  city,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  as  such,  in  addition  to  his 
duties  as  chief  examiner  and  secretary  of  the  civil  service  commission, 
to  receive  all  applications  for  labor  by  persons  desiring  employment 
and  by  persons  desiring  to  employ  labor,  and  record  their  names,  when 
requested,  in  a  book  to  be  kept  for  that  purpose,  designating  opposite 
the  name  of  each  applicant  the  character  of  labor  or  employment  de- 
sired and  the  address  of  such  applicant.  To  prevent  abuses  the  com- 
mission may  require  a  deposit  not  to  exceed  twenty-five  cents  from  each 
person  applying  for  work  or  applying  to  employ  labor.  The  commis- 
sioner of  labor  shall  be  under  the  direction  and  control  of  the  civil 
service  commission  and  shall  make  such  reports,  and  at  such  times,  and 
perform  such  other  duties  as  the  commission  may  require. 


CIVIL    SERVICE    DEPARTMENT.  87 

Sec.  17.  Rooms;  Public  Employment  Office;  Bureau  of  Labor  Sta- 
tistics:— The  city  council  shall  allow  the  reasonable  use  of  all  public 
buildings  or  halls  for  the  holding  of  examinations  and  for  the  meetings 
of  the  commission,  and  shall  provide  and  furnish  a  suitable  ofRce  or 
offices  to  carry  out  the  purposes  of  this  article.  The  office  of  the  chief 
examiner  and  labor  commissioner  shall  be  known  as  the  "Public  Em- 
ployment Office  of  the  City  of  Seattle,"  and  be  centrally  located,  and  a 
sign  shall  be  maintained  bearing  such  designation.  Such  office  shall  be 
a  bureau  of  statistics  of  labor  for  the  City  of  Seattle,  and  the  commis- 
sioner of  labor  may,  under  the  direction  of  the  civil  service  commission, 
collect,  arrange  and  systematize  all  statistics  relating  to  the  various 
branches  of  labor  in  the  city  and  especially  those  relating  to  the  com- 
mercial, industrial  and  social  condition  of  the  inhabitants. 

Sec.  18.  Salary  and  Expenses  of  Commissioners;  Assistant  Labor 
Commissioner:- — The  compensation  of  the  civil  service  commissioners 
shall  be  $100  per  year  each,  payable  quarterly;  Provided,  however,  That 
after  the  first  day  of  January,  1898,  the  city  council  may  by  ordinance 
increase  their  compensation.  The  city  council  shall  provide  for  the  ex- 
penses of  the  commission  and  for  the  maintenance  of  the  public  employ- 
ment office,  and  may  provide  for  an  assistant  or  assistants  to  the  labor 
commissioner. 

Sec.  19.     Frauds  in  Examinations,  Appointments  and  Promotions: 

— No  person  or  officer  shall  willfully  or  corruptly  by  himself  or  in  col- 
lusion with  one  or  more  other  persons,  deceive  or  obstruct  any  person  in 
respect  to  his  or  her  right  of  examination,  or  corruptly  or  falsely  mark, 
grade,  estimate  or  report  upon  the  examination  or  proper  standing  of 
any  person  examined  hereunder,  or  aid  in  doing  so,  or  willfully  or  cor- 
ruptly make  any  false  representation  concerning  the  same  or  concern- 
ing the  person  examined,  or  willfully  or  corruptly  furnish  to  any  person 
any  special  or  secret  information  for  the  purpose  of  either  improving 
or  injuring  the  prospect  or  chances  of  any  person  so  examined,  or  to  be 
examined,  to  be  appointed,  employed  or  promoted. 

Sec.  20.  Eeceiving-  or  Soliciting-  Political  Contributions  by  0  cers 
or  Employes :^ — No  officer  or  employe  of  the  city  shall  solicit  orally  or 
by  letter,  or  otherwise,  or  receive,  or  be  in  any  manner  concerned  in 
soliciting  or  receiving,  any  assessment,  subscription  or  contribution  for 
any  party  or  political  purpose  whatever. 

Sec.  21.  Soliciting"  Political  Contributions  From  Officers  or  Em- 
ployes in  Public  Offices: — No  person  shall  in  any  room  or  building  occu- 
pied for  the  discharge  of  official  duties  by  any  officer  or  employe  of  the 
city,  solicit  orally  or  by  letter,  or  by  written  communication  delivered 
therein,  or  in  any  other  manner  or  place  solicit  or  receive  from  any 
officer  or  employe  of  the  city,  appointed  under  civil  service  rules,  any 
contribution  or  money  or  other  thing  of  value  for  any  party  or  political 
purpose  whatever.  No  officer  or  employe  of  the  city  who  may  have 
charge  or  control  of  any  building,  office  or  room  occupied  by  persons  in 


88  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    XVI. 

the  employ  of  the  city,  shall  permit  any  person  to  enter  the  same  for 
the  purpose  of  therein  soliciting  or  delivering  written  solicitations  or 
receiving  or  giving  notice  of  any  political  assessment. 

Sec.  22.  Payment  of  Political  Assessments  by  Officers  and  Em- 
ployes:— No  officer  or  employe  in  the  service  of  the  city,  under  civil 
service  rules,  shall  directly  or  indirectly  give  or  hand  over  to  any  person 
in  the  employ  of  or  holding  office  under  the  city,  county,  state  or  national 
government  any  money  or  other  valuable  thing  on  account  of,  or  to  be 
applied  to  the  promotion  of  any  party  or  political  object  whatever. 

Sec.  23.  Punishment  or  Reward  of  Subordinates  on  Account  of 
Politics: — No  officer  or  employe  of  the  city  shall  degrade,  discharge  or 
promote,  or  in  any  manner  change  the  official  rank  or  compensation  of 
any  other  officer  or  employe,  or  promise  or  threaten  to  do  so,  for  giving 
or  withholding,  or  neglecting  to  make  any  contribution  of  money  or  any 
valuable  thing  for  any  party  or  political  purpose,  or  for  refusal  or  neglect 
to  render  any  party  or  political  service. 

Sec.  24.  Payment  for  Appointment  or  Promotion: — No  applicant 
for  appointment  or  promotion  in  the  classified  civil  service  shall  either 
directly  or  indirectly  pay  or  promise  to  pay  any  money  or  other  valuable 
thing  to  any  person  whatever  for  or  on  account  of  his  appointment,  or 
promotion,  or  proposed  appointment  or  promotion. 

Sec.  25.  Recommendations,  Certain,  Not  to  Be  Received: — No  ap- 
plicant for  appointment  or  promotion  in  the  classified  civil  service  shall 
ask  for  or  receive  any  recommendation  or  assistance  from  any  officer 
or  employe  in  said  service,  or  of  any  other  person,  upon  consideration  of 
any  political  service  to  be  rendered  to  or  for  such  person,  or  for  the  pro- 
motion of  such  person  to  any  office  or  appointment.  No  recommenda- 
tion by  any  officer,  city,  county,  state  or  national,  except  as  to  character, 
residence  or  fitness  of  the  applicant,  shall  be  received  or  considered  by 
any  person  concerned  in  any  examination  or  appointment  under  this 
article,  and  no  recommendation  whatever  shall  be  made  by  or  received 
from  the  mayor. 

Sec.  26.     Giving  or  Promising  Rewards  for  Political  Services: — No 

person  holding  any  office  in  the  government  of  the  city,  or  any  nomina- 
tion for,  or  while  seeking  a  nomination  for,  or  appointment  to  such 
office  shall  corruptly  use  or  promise  to  use,  either  directly  or  indirectly, 
any  official  authority  or  influence,  whether  then  possessed  or  merely 
anticipated,  in  the  way  of  conferring  upon  any  person,  or  in  order  to 
secure  or  aid  any  person  in  securing  any  office  or  public  employment, 
or  any  nomination,  confirmation  or  promotion,  or  increase  of  salary, 
upon  the  consideration  or  condition  that  the  vote  or  political  influence 
or  action  of  the  last  named  person  shall  be  given  or  used  in  behalf  of 
any  candidate,  officer  or  party,  or  upon  any  other  corrupt  condition  or 
consideration. 


CIVIL    SERVICE    DEPARTMENT.  89 

Sec.  27.  Appointmeuts,  Vacancies  and  Findings  Certified  to  Comp- 
troller:— The  commission  shall  certify  to  the  city  comptroller  all  appoint- 
ments to  places  and  offices  in  the  classified  civil  service,  and  all  vacancies 
occurring  therein,  whether  by  death,  retirement,  resignation  or  dismissal, 
and  all  findings  made  or  approved  by  the  commission  under  the  provision 
of  section  12  of  this  article. 

Sec.  28.  Salary  or  Wag^es  Not  Paid  Except  to  Those  Lawfully  Ap- 
pointed:— The  comptroller  shall  not  approve  of  the  payment  of,  nor  shall 
the  treasurer  pay  or  be  in  any  manner  concerned  in  paying  any  salary 
or  wages  to  any  person  for  services  as  an  officer  or  employe  of  the  city, 
unless  such  person  is  occupying  an  office  or  place  of  employment  accord- 
ing to  the  provisions  of  law  and  is  entitled  to  payment  therefor,  nor  shall 
the  comptroller  audit  or  allow  the  claim  for  services  of  any  deputy  or 
other  person  employed  in  the  public  service  in  violation  of  the  provisions 
of  this  article. 

Sec.  29.  Penalties  for  Civil  Service  Appointees: — Any  person  in  the 
service  of  the  city  by  appointment  under  civil  service  rules  who  shall 
willfully  or  through  culpable  negligence  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  article,  and  who  shall  be  convicted  thereof  after  a  trial  before  the 
civil  service  commission,  shall  be  dismissed  from  the  service  of  the  city 
and  not  be  subject  to  reappointment. 

Sec.  30.  Penalties  for  Officers  and  Employes  Not  Under  Civil  Ser- 
vice, and  Other  Persons: — Any  officer  or  employe  of  the  city  other  than 
those  holding  office  under  the  civil  service  rules,  who  shall  willfully  or 
through  culpable  negligence  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  article, 
and  who  shall  be  convicted  thereof,  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than 
fifty  dollars  ($50.00)  and  not  exceeding  one  thousand  dollars  ($1,000.00), 
and  the  office  so  held  by  such  person  by  force  of  such  conviction  shall  be 
rendered  vacant  and  such  person  shall  be  incapable  of  holding  any  office 
or  place  of  employment  under  the  city  thereafter.  Any  other  person  who 
shall  willfully  or  through  culpable  negligence  violate  any  of  the  provis- 
ions of  this  article,  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine 
of  not  less  than  fifty  dollars  ($50.00)  and  not  exceeding  one  thousand 
dollars  ($1,000.00). 

Sec.  31.  Retirement  on  Account  of  Age: — The  commission  may  fix 
by  its  rules  the  age  at  which  a  person  in  the  service  of  the  city,  appointed 
under  civil  service  rules,  may  be  retired  from  service. 

Sec.  32.     Payment  of  Persons  Disabled  in  Service;  Medals  of  Honor: 

— Any  person  in  the  service  of  the  city  under  civil  service  appointment 
who  shall  be  disabled  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  shall  receive  full 
pay  during  such  disability  not  to  exceed  thirty  days,  and  half  pay  not  to 
exceed  six  months,  or  who  shall  be  permanently  injured  or  disabled  while 
in  the  line  of  duty,  shall  receive  pay  while  such  disability  continues,  to 
be  fixed  by  the  city  council,  not  exceeding  twenty  per  cent,  of  the  pay 
received  by  such  person  at  the  time  of  injury.     The  commission  shall 


90  CHARTER.    ARTICLE    XVII. 

prescribe  such  rules  as  may  be  necessary  for  carrying  out  the  purposes  of 
this  section,  and  may  provide  a  suitable  medal  of  honor  for  distinguished 
bravery  or  service  while  in  the  line  of  duty. 

Sec.  33.  Yacations: — The  head  of  any  department  may  grant  fifteen 
days'  vacation  with  pay  in  any  one  year  to  any  person  or  employee  in  the 
civil  service  of  the  city. 

Sec.  34.  Use  of  lutoxieauts  by  Officers  and  Employes: — No  person 
habitually  using  intoxicating  beverages  to  excess  shall  be  appointed  to 
or  retained  in  any  office,  appointment  or  employment  to  which  the  pro- 
visions of  this  article  are  applicable. 

Sec.  35.  Present  Emi)loyes  Under  Rules: — All  persons  other  than 
those  designated  in  section  11  of  this  article,  holding  office  or  employ- 
ment under  the  city  at  the  time  of  the  adoption  of  this  charter,  shall  be 
required  by  the  civil  service  commission  to  take  the  civil  service  examina- 
tion. Any  person  who  shall  not  take  the  civil  service  examination  within 
six  months  after  the  adoption  of  this  charter  shall  be  removed  by  the 
appointing  power,  and  shall  not  be  entitled  to  any  of  the  benefits  herein 
provided  for  persons  holding  office  by  appointment  under  civil  service 
rules. 


ARTICLE  XVII. 

SALARIES  AND  BONDS. 

Section  1.  Mayor,  Corporation  Counsel,  Treasurer,  City  Comp- 
troller; Salaries  of: — The  mayor  shall  receive  an  annual  salary  of 
$7,500.00.  The  annual  salaries  of  the  following  officers  of  the  city  shall 
be  as  follows:  Corporation  counsel,  $4,800.00;  treasurer,  $4,200.00; 
city  comptroller  and  ex-officio  city  clerk,  $4,200.00.  (As  amended  March 
5,  1912.     Cf.  Am.  1900-1908.) 

Sec.  2.     ]Vo    Compensation    Except    Salary;    No    Increase    During 

Term: — No  officer  or  employe  of  the  city  shall  receive  any  compensation 
for  his  service  as  such  officer  or  employe  except  by  salary,  which,  when 
not  prescribed  by  this  charter,  shall  be  fixed  by  the  city  council  by  ordi- 
nance. All  salaries  shall  be  paid  at  such  times  and  in  such  manner  as 
may  be  prescribed  by  ordinance.  The  salary  of  an  appointive  or  elective 
officer  shall  not  be  increased  after  his  appointment  or  election,  or  during 
the  term  for  which  he  shall  have  been  appointed  or  elected.  (As 
amended  March  5,  1912.) 

Sec.  3.  Official  Bonds;  Sureties;  Approval;  Amounts: — All  salaried 
officers  of  the  city  other  than  policemen,  detective  officers  and  firemen 
shall,  before  they  enter  upon  the  discharge  of  their  official  duties,  give 
approved  bonds,  conditioned  on  the  faithful  performance  of  such  official 
duties,  which  sureties  shall  be  freeholders  within  this  state  and  residents 


SECTION  I,  ARTICLE  XVIII. 

Section  1.  (As  H<h>i,tcd  March  ',,  11)13.)  Elections;  General  and 
Special: — There  shall  be  held  in  this  city  on  the  first  Tuesday  following 
the  first  Monday  in  March,  a  general  municipal  election. 

Such  election  shall  be  held  biennially,  in  the  even  numbered  years, 
as  to  the  mayor  and  all  other  elective  officers,  with  the  exception  of 
councilmen;  said  general  municipal  election  for  the  election  of  council- 
men  and  the  submission  of  charter  amendments  and  other  propositions 
shall  be  held  annually.  Special  election  shall  be  held  at  such  times  and 
for  such  purposes  as  the  City  Council  may,  by  ordinance  prescribe,  sub- 
ject to  such  limitations  and  pursuant  to  such  requirements  as  are  pro- 
vided in  this  charter  or  in  the  laws  of  the  State  of  Washington. 

Subdivision  A.  Nominations: — Nominations  for  municipal  elective 
offices  under  this  charter  shall  be  made  in  conformity  with  the  non- 
partisan method  hereinafter  prescribed  and  provided,  to-wit: 

First.  Primary  Election: — A  primary  or  first  election  shall  be 
held  on  the  Tuesday  two  weeks  preceding  the  day  of  any  general 
municipal  election.  Whenever  said  Tuesday  shall  fall  upon  any  legal 
holiday,  the  primary  shall  be  held  on  the  Monday  immediately  preceding 
the  same. 

Second.  Ballots;  How  Printed: — All  names  of  candidates  to  be 
voted  upon  at  the  primary  election  shall  be  printed  upon  the  official 
primary  ballot  alphabetically  in  groups  under  the  designation  of  the 
respective  titles  of  the  offices  for  which  they  are  candidates. 

Nothing  on  the  ballot  shall  be  indicative  of  the  source  of  the  candi- 
dacy or  of  the  support  of  any  candidate.  No  ballot  shall  have  printed 
thereon  any  party  or  political  designation  or  mark,  and  there  shall  not 
be  appended  to  the  name  of  any  candidate  any  such  party  or  political 
designation  or  mark,  or  anything  indicating  liis  views  or  opinions. 

All  ballots  printed  shall  be  of  precisely  the  same  size,  quality,  tint  of 
paper,  kind  of  type  and  color  of  ink,  so  that,  except  for  the  consecutive 
numbers  printed  on  the  perforated  corners  for  removal  when  the  ballots 
are  voted  as  provided  by  general  law,  it  shall  be  impossible  to  distinguish 
one  ballot  from  another.  The  ballot  shall  be  substantially  in  the  follow- 
ing form: 

Primary  Election,  City  of  Seattle.. 19 

Official  ballot  for  use  in  Precinct  (designation  of  precinct  to 

be  printed  or  stamped). 

Instructions  to  voters: 

To  vote,  place  a  cross  (X)  mark  in  the  square  following  opposite  the 
name  of  the  candidate  for  whom  you  desire  to  vote.  Or  you  may  write 
in  the  blank  space  provided  below  each  group,  the  name  of  any  person 
or  persons  for  whom  you  desire  to  vote;  or  attach  a  paster  bearing  the 
printed  name  of  any  such  person  or  persons.  Any  distinguishing  marks 
except  as  above  indicated  are  forbidden  and  make  the  ballot  void.    If  you 


SECTION  1,  ARTICLE  XVIII. 

appear  upon  the  ballot,  together  with  a  list  of  the  offices  to  be  filled,  and 
the  same  shall  be  published  at  least  three  consecutive  days  before  the 
election  in  the  city  official  newspaper. 

Sixth.     Provisions  of  State  Law  and  City  Charter  Applicable: — All 

the  provisions  of  this  charter  and  of  the  state  law  relating  to  the  holding 
of  general  municipal  elections,  in  so  far  as  they  pertain  to  the  qualifica- 
tions of  electors,  the  designation  of  voting  places  and  election  officers, 
the  conduct  of  the  election,  the  canvassing  of  the  votes  and  making  the 
returns  thereof,  and  the  closing  of  saloons  on  the  day  of  election,  shall 
ap])ly  with  equal  force  to  the  primary  election. 

Canvass  of  Keturns: — On  the  first  Friday  evening  after  the  primary 
election  the  City  Council  shall  at  seven  o'clock,  meet  and  proceed  to 
canvass  the  returns  thereof,  and  shall  ascertain  and  declare  the  names 
of  the  two  candidates  for  each  office  who  at  the  primary  election  have 
received  the  highest  votes  for  such  office,  except  the  office  of  councilman, 
and  in  the  case  of  office  of  councilman,  the  names  of  the  candidates,  in 
number  equal  to  twice  the  number  of  councilmen  to  be  elected,  who  have 
received  the  highest  votes  at  the  primary  election,  and  such  persons  shall 
be  deemed  to  be  the  nominees  for  the  respective  offices,  between  whom 
the  choice  will  be  made  at  the  ensuing  general  election.  In  case  of  any 
tie  vote  affecting  nominations,  both  or  all  persons  receiving  such  tie 
vote  shall  be  nominees. 

Subdivision  B.     Comptroller  Shall  Publish  List  of  Nominees: — The 

city  comptroller  immediately  after  the  canvass  of  returns  of  the  primary 
election  shall  certify  a  list  of  the  nominees  for  the  respective  offices,  and 
the  same  shall  be  published  in  the  official  newspaper  of  the  city.  In 
the  event  of  the  death,  withdrawal,  removal  or  other  disqualification  of 
any  nominee  for  any  office  at  any  time  prior  to  the  printing  of  the  ballots, 
the  name  of  the  person  receiving  the  next  highest  vote  for  that  office  at 
the  primary  election  shall  be  substituted  therefor.  The  comptroller  shall 
also  prepare  the  official  ballots  and  print  and  distribute  them  for  the  gen- 
eral election,  with  the  names  of  the  respective  nominees  printed  thereon, 
conforming  in  all  respects  to  the  requirements  for  ballots  hereinbefore 
prescribed  as  respecting  the  primary  election,  except  that  the  names  of 
nominees  shall  be  printed  in  each  group  on  the  ballot  in  the  order  of  the 
number  of  votes  they  received  at  the  primary  election,  the  nominee  re- 
ceiving the  highest  vote  at  the  top  in  each  group,  and  there  shall  be  no 
rotation  of  the  names  in  the  printing  of  the  ballots.  A  blank  line  shall 
be  left  below  the  names  of  the  printed  nominees  for  each  office,  wherein 
the  voter  may  write  or  paste  in  the  name  of  any  person  for  whom  he 
may  desire  to  vote. 


I 


ELECTIONS.  91 

thereof,  and  worth  double  the  sum  for  which  they  become  liable  on  such 
bonds  over  and  above  all  just  debts  and  liabilities  in  unincumbered  prop- 
erty situated  within  this  state,  which  is  not  exempt  from  execution  and 
forced  sale;  Provided,  That  the  suretyship  of  approved  surety  corpora- 
tions may  be  accepted  in  lieu  of  individual  sureties.  All  official  bonds 
must  be  approved  by  a  majority  of  the  auditing  committee  in  open  ses- 
sion. The  amounts  of  all  such  bonds,  except  as  otherwise  provided  in 
this  charter,  shall  be  as  fixed  by  the  city  council  by  ordinance. 

Sec.  4.  Condition  of  Bond  of  Chief  of  Police: — It  shall  be  one  con- 
dition of  the  bond  of  the  chief  of  police  that  he  shall  pay  all  such  actual 
damages  as  may  be  sustained  by  any  person  arrested  without  a  warrant 
by  reason  of  any  false  or  unlawful  imprisonment  by  or  under  the  direction 
of  such  chief  of  police. 


ARTICLE  XVIII. 

ELECTIONS. 

Section  1.  Elections;  General  and  Special: — There  shall  be  held  in 
this  city  on  the  first  Tuesday  following  the  first  Monday  in  March,  a 
general  municipal  election.  Such  election  shall  be  held  biennially,  in 
the  even-numbered  years,  as  to  the  mayor  and  all  other  elective  officers, 
including  members  of  the  city  council,  for  the  terms  provided  for  in  this 
city  charter;  Provided,  however.  That  in  the  event  of  the  adoption  of 
the  amended  section  2,  article  IV.,  of  this  charter  (submitted  to  the 
vote  of  the  people  March  8,  1910),  said  general  municipal  election  for 
the  election  of  members  of  the  city  council  and  the  submission  of  charter 
amendments  and  other  propositions,  shall  be  held  annually,  beginning 
with  March,  1911;  but  if  said  amendment  be  not  adopted,  such  election 
shall  be  held  in  March,  1912,  and  biennially  thereafter.  Special  elections 
shall  be  held  at  such  times  and  for  such  purposes  as  the  city  council  may 
by  ordinance  prescribe,  subject  to  such  limitations  and  pursuant  to  such 
requirements  as  are  provided  in  this  charter  or  in  the  laws  of  the  State 
of  Washington;  Provided,  That  at  least  twenty  days'  notice  shall  be 
given  of  the  time,  place  and  purpose  of  any  special  election,  by  posting 
notices  and  making  official  publication  thereof. 

Subdivision  A.  Nominations: — Nominations  for  municipal  elective 
offices  under  this  charter  shall  be  made  in  conformity  with  the  non-par- 
tisan method  hereinafter  prescribed  and  provided,  to-wit: 

First.  Primary  Election: — A  primary  or  first  election  shall  be  held 
on  the  Tuesday  two  weeks  preceding  the  day  of  any  general  municipal 
election.  Whenever  said  Tuesday  shall  fall  upon  any  legal  holiday,  the 
primary  shall  be  held  on  the  Monday  immediately  preceding  the  same. 

Second.  Ballots;  How  Printed: — All  names  of  candidates  to  be 
voted  upon  at  the  primary  election  shall  be  printed  upon  the  official  pri- 
mary ballot  in  groups  under  the  designation  of  the  respective  titles  of 


92  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    XVIII. 

the  offices  for  which  they  are  candidates.  Nothing  on  the  ballot  shall  be 
indicative  of  the  source  of  the  candidacy  or  of  the  support  of  any  candi- 
date. No  ballot  shall  have  printed  thereon  any  party  or  political  desig- 
nation or  mark,  and  there  shall  not  be  appended  to  the  name  of  any  can- 
didate any  such  party  or  political  designation  or  mark,  or  anything  indi- 
cating his  views  or  opinions.  All  ballots  printed  shall  be  of  precisely 
the  same  size,  quality,  tint  of  paper,  kind  of  paper,  kind  of  type  and  color 
of  ink,  so  that  (except  for  the  consecutive  numbers  printed  on  the  per- 
forated corners  for  removal  when  the  ballots  are  voted,  as  provided  by 
general  law),  it  shall  be  impossible  to  distinguish  one  ballot  from  an- 
other.    The  ballot  shall  be  substantially  in  the  following  form : 

Primary  election.  City  of  Seattle,  to  be  held ,  19 


Official  Ballot  for  use  in  (designation  of  precinct  to  be  printed  or 
stamped). 

Instruction  to  voters: 

To  vote,  place  a  cross  (X)  mark  in  the  square  following  opposite  the 
name  of  the  candidate  for  whom  you  desire  to  vote.  Or  you  may  write 
in  the  blank  space  provided  below  each  group,  the  name  of  any  person 
or  persons  for  whom  you  desire  to  vote;  or  attach  a  paster  bearing  the 
printed  name  of  any  such  person  or  persons.  Any  distinguishing  marks 
except  as  above  indicated  are  forbidden  and  make  the  ballot  void.  If  you 
wrongly  mark,  tear  or  deface  the  ballot,  return  it  to  the  election  officers 
and  obtain  another. 

Underneath  the  above  heading  and  instructions  shall  be  arranged  in 
separate  columns,  the  titles  of  the  respective  offices  to  be  voted  for,  and 
under  each  title  the  names  of  the  candidates  therefor,  in  the  following 
manner,  viz. : 


For  Mayor  (Vote  for  one) 


(Name) 
(Name) 
(Name) 
(Name) 


(Name) 
(Name) 
(Name) 
(Name) 


(Name) 
(Name) 
(Name) 
(Name) 


For  Councilmen  (Vote  for ) 


For  Comptroller   (Vote  for  one) 


ELECTIONS.  93 

Squares  shall  be  provided  at  the  right  of  the  name  of  each  candidate, 
wherein  to  place  the  cross  (X)  mark,  and  at  the  bottom  of  each  group  of 
names  shall  be  provided  at  least  one  blank  line,  with  the  square  at  the 
right  of  the  same,  for  us  in  writing  or  pasting  in  any  name  and  voting 
therefor. 

In  printing  the  names  of  candidates  in  the  group  under  each  ofRcial 
title,  the  names  shall  first  be  arranged  one  beneath  the  other  in  alpha- 
betical order.  In  printing  the  ballots,  the  position  of  the  names  of  can- 
didates shall  be  changed  in  each  ofRcial  division  or  group,  as  many  times 
as  there  are  candidates  in  the  official  division  or  group  having  the  most 
names.  As  nearly  as  possible,  an  equal  number  of  ballots  shall  be 
printed  in  each  of  these  changes  of  position  of  the  names.  In  making 
the  changes  of  position,  the  printer  shall  take  the  line  of  type  at  the 
head  of  each  official  division  or  group  of  names,  and  place  it  at  the  bottom 
of  said  division,  and  shove  up  the  column  of  names  so  that  the  name  that 
before  was  second,  shall  be  first,  after  the  change.  When  the  ballots 
are  printed  they  shall  be  kept  in  separate  piles,  one  pile  for  each  change 
of  position,  and  they  shall  then  be  gathered  by  taking  one  ballot  from 
each  pile  in  rotation  until  all  are  gathered.  There  shall  be  no  printing 
upon  the  back  of  the  ballots  or  any  mark  to  distinguish  them.  After 
the  ballots  have  been  gathered  as  above  provided,  they  shall  be  printed 
or  stamped  for  the  respective  precincts  in  which  they  are  to  be  used,  and 
they  shall  be  numbered  consecutively  for  use  in  each  precinct,  said  num- 
bering to  be  perforated  and  torn  off  by  the  election  officers  on  the  voting 
of  the  ballot. 

Space  shall  be  provided  on  the  ballot  for  charter  amendments  and 
other  questions  or  propositions  to  be  voted  upon  at  the  municipal  elec- 
tion, as  provided  by  this  charter  or  the  laws  of  the  state. 

Quantity  of  Ballots  to  be  Same  as  at  Other  Elections: — The  city 
comptroller  (ex-officio  city  clerk)  shall  cause  a  sufficient  number  of  of- 
ficial ballots  to  be  printed  as  hereinbefore  prescribed  and  distributed  to 
the  election  officers  for  use  in  the  respective  voting  precincts  throughout 
the  city,  in  the  same  manner  as  required  by  law  for  other  elections. 

Sample  Ballots: — At  least  five  (5)  days  before  the  election,  the  city 
comptroller  shall  cause  to  be  printed  five  thousand  or  more  sample  bal- 
lots, upon  paper  different  in  color,  but  otherwise  identical  with  the  bal- 
lot to  be  used  at  the  election;  except  that  the  words  "Sample  Ballot"  shall 
be  printed  across  the  head  of  the  same,  and  the  numbering  designation 
of  precincts,  and  rotation  of  names  shall  not  be  necessary  in  printing 
said  sample  ballots. 

Third.     Name  of  Candidate  \)j  Petition  to  be  Placed  on  Ballot: — The 

name  of  a  candidate  shall  be  printed  upon  the  ballot  prepared  for  the 
primary  election,  when  a  petition  of  nomination  shall  have  been  filed  in 
his  behalf  in  the  manner  and  form  and  under  the  conditions  hereinafter 
set  forth,  viz.:  The  petition  of  nomination  shall  consist  of  not  less  than 
twenty-five  (25)  individual  certificates,  which  shall  read  substantially 
as  follows: 


94  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    XVIII. 

PETITION  OF  NOMINATION. 

Individual  Certificate. 

I  do  hereby  join  in  a  petition  for  the  nomination  of 

,   whose  residence   is  at  No 

Street,  Seattle,  for  the  office  of to  be  voted  for 

at  the  next  ensuing  general  municipal  election  to  be  held  in  the  City  of 
Seattle;  and  I  certify  that  I  am  a  qualified  elector,  and  am  not  at  this 
time  a  signer  of  any  other  certificate  nominating  any  other  candidate 
for  the  above  office  (or  in  case  of  councilmen  where  more  than  one  is  to 
be  elected)  that  I  have  not  signed  more  certificates  than  there  are  coun- 
cilmen  to   be   elected   at   said   election;    that   my   residence   is   at   No. 

Street,  Seattle. 

I  further  certify  that  I  join  in  this  petition  for  the  nomination  of 
the  above  named  person,  believing  that  he  has  not  become  a  candidate 
as  the  nominee  or  representative  of,  or  because  of  any  promised  support 
from  any  national  or  state  political  party,  or  any  committee  or  conven- 
tion representing  or  acting  for  any  such  political  party. 

(Signed)  

STATE  OF  WASHINGTON,  ] 

City  of  Seattle,  [     ss: 

County  of  King.  J 

,  being  first  duly  sworn,   deposes  and 

says  that  he  is  the  person  who  signed  the  foregoing  certificate,  and  that 

the  statements  therein  are  true. 

.        (Signed)  

Subscribed  and  sworn   to  before   me  this day 

of - ,  A.  D.  19 

(Signed)  _ 

Notary  Public  in  and  for  the  State  of  Washington  residing  at  Seattle. 
(Notarial  Seal) 

The  petition  of  which  this  certificate  forms  part  shall,  if  found  de- 
fective or  insufficient,  be  returned  to 

at  No Street,  Seattle,  Washington. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  comptroller  (ex-officio  city  clerk)  to 
provide,  and  furnish  upon  application,  a  reasonable  number  of  forms  of 
such  individual  certificates.  Each  certificate  must  be  a  separate  paper. 
All  certificates  must  be  of  a  uniform  size  as  determined  by  the  city  comp- 
troller. Each  certificate  must  contain  the  name  of  one  signer  thereto, 
and  no  more.  In  case  an  elector  has  signed  two  or  more  conflicting  cer- 
tificates, all  shall  be  rejected.  Each  signer  must  make  oath  to  his  cer- 
tificate before  a  notary  public,  substantially  in  the  form  hereinbefore 
prescribed. 

Fourth.  Petition  of  IVomination: — A  petition  of  nomination,  con- 
sisting of  not  less  than  twenty-five  individual  certificates  for  any  one 


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candidate,  may  be  presented  to  the  city  comptroller  not  earlier  than 
sixty,  nor  later  than  thirty  days  before  the  primary  election.  The  city 
comptroller  shall  endorse  thereon  the  date  upon  which  the  petition  was 
presented  to  him.  When  any  such  petition  of  nomination  is  presented 
to  the  city  comptroller  for  filing,  he  shall  forthwith  examine  the  same 
and  ascertain  whether  it  conforms  to  the  provisions  of  this  article  of 
the  city  charter.  If  found  not  to  conform  thereto,  he  shall  then  and 
there  designate  on  said  petition  the  defect  or  omission  or  other  reason 
why  such  petition  can  not  be  filed,  and  shall  forthwith  return  the  peti- 
tion to  the  person  named  thereon  as  the  person  to  whom  the  same  shall 
be  returned.  The  petition  may  then  be  amended,  and  again,  but  not 
later  than  three  days  thereafter,  presented  to  the  city  comptroller,  as 
in  the  first  instance,  and  he  shall  forthwith  proceed  to  examine  the 
amended  petition  as  hereinbefore  provided.  If  either  the  original  or 
amended  petition  of  nomination  be  found  sufficiently  signed  as  herein- 
before provided,  the  city  comptroller  shall  file  the  same  forthwith  and 
forthwith  notify  by  mail  the  person  so  nominated. 

Fifth.  Person  Nominated  to  File  Acceptance  or  Declination: — Any 
person  nominated  under  this  article  shall  file  his  acceptance  with  the  city 
comptroller  within  ten  days  from  the  filing  of  the  petition  of  nomination 
and  the  mailing  of  his  notification  thereof,  and  in  the  absence  of  such 
acceptance  the  name  of  the  candidate  shall  not  appear  on  the  ballot.  In 
said  acceptance  (a  form  wherefor  shall  be  prepared  by  the  city  comp- 
troller, and  a  copy  thereof  mailed  with  the  notification  of  the  filing  of  a 
petition  for  his  nomination  to  each  candidate),  he  shall  make  affidavit  to 
the  fact  that  he  has  not  become  a  candidate  as  the  nominee  of,  or  because 
of  any  promised  support  from  any  national  or  state  political  party  or  any 
committee  or  convention  representing  or  acting  for  any  such  political 
party.  Any  person  whose  name  has  been  presented  under  this  article  a-s 
a  candidate  may,  not  later  than  fifteen  days  before  the  primary  election, 
cause  his  name  to  be  withdrawn  from  nomination  by  filing  with  the  city 
comptroller  a  request  therefor  in  writing,  and  no  name  so  withdrawn 
shall  be  printed  upon  the  official  ballot.  The  city  comptroller  shall  pre- 
serve in  his  office  for  a  period  of  three  years  all  petitions  for  nominations, 
certificates  and  withdrawals  filed  under  the  provisions  of  this  article. 

Sixth.  List  of  Candidates  to  be  CertiJied: — The  city  comptroller 
(ex-officio  city  clerk)  shall,  on  the  tenth  day  before  the  primary  election, 
certify  a  list  of  the  candidates  nominated  for  the  respective  offices  whose 
names  are  entitled  to  appear  upon  the  ballot,  as  being  the  list  of  candi- 
dates nominated  as  required  by  this  charter,  together  with  a  list  of  the 
offices  to  be  filled,  and  the  same  shall  be  published  at  least  three  consecu- 
tive days  before  the  election,  in  the  official  newspaper  of  the  city,  and 
posted  in  the  vicinity  of  each  precinct  polling  place. 

Seventh.  Provisions  of  City  Charter  and  State  Law  Applicable: — 
All  the  provisions  of  this  charter  and  of  the  state  law  relating  to  the 
holding  of  general  municipal  elections,  including  the  qualifications  of 
electors,  the  designation  of  voting  places  and  election  officers,  the  notice 
of  election,  the  conduct  of  the  election,  the  canvassing  of  the  votes  and 
making  the  returns  thereof,  and  the  closing  of  saloons  on  the  day  of 
election,  shall  apply  with  equal  force  to  the  primary  election. 


96  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    XVIII. 

Canvass  of  Eeturns: — ^On  the  first  Friday  evening  after  the  primary- 
election,  the  city  council  shall,  at  eight  o'clock,  meet  and  proceed  to 
canvass  the  returns  thereof,  and  shall  ascertain  and  declare  the  names 
of  the  two  candidates  for  each  office  who  at  the  primary  election  have 
received  the  highest  votes  for  such  office  except  the  office  of  councilman, 
and  in  the  case  of  office  of  councilman,  the  names  of  the  candidates,  in 
number  equal  to  twice  the  number  of  councilmen  to  be  elected,  who  have 
received  the  highest  votes  at  the  primary  election,  and  such  persons  shall 
be  deemed  to  be  the  nominees  for  the  respective  offices,  between  whom 
the  choice  will  be  made  at  the  ensuing  general  election.  In  case  of  any 
tie  vote  affecting  nominations,  both  or  all  persons  receiving  such  tie 
vote  shall  be  nominees. 

Subdivision  B.     Comptroller  Shall  Piililisli  List  of  Nominees: — The 

city  comptroller,  immediately  after  the  canvass  of  the  returns  of  the 
primary  election,  shall  prepare  and  officially  publish  and  post  a  supple- 
mentary notice  of  the  general  municipal  election,  with  the  names  of  the 
nominees  for  the  respective  offices,  and  any  other  matters  to  be  voted 
upon  at  said  election.  In  the  event  of  the  death,  withdrawal,  removal 
or  other  disqualification  of  any  nominee  for  any  office  at  any  time  prior 
to  the  printing  of  the  ballots,  the  name  of  the  person  receiving  the  next 
highest  vote  for  that  office  at  the  primary  election  shall  be  substituted 
therefor.  The  comptroller  shall  also  prepare  the  official  ballots  and 
print  and  distribute  them  for  the  general  election,  with  the  names  of  the 
respective  nominees  printed  thereon,  conforming  in  all  respects  to  the 
requirements  for  ballots  hereinbefore  prescribed  as  respecting  the  pri- 
mary election,  except  that  the  names  of  nominees  shall  be  printed  in 
each  group  on  the  ballot  in  the  order  of  the  number  of  votes  they  received 
at  the  primary  election,  the  nominee  receiving  the  highest  vote  at  the 
top  in  each  group,  and  there  shall  be  no  rotation  of  the  names  in  the 
printing  of  the  ballots.  A  blank  line  shall  be  left  below  the  names  of 
the  printed  nominees  for  each  office,  wherein  the  voter  may  write  or  paste 
in  the  name  of  any  person  for  whom  he  may  desire  to  vote.  fAs 
amended  March  8,  1910.) 

Sec.  2.  Qualifications  of  Voters: — The  qualifications  of  voters  at 
all  elections  shall  be  as  provided  in  article  six  of  the  constitution  of  the 
State  of  Washington,  and  not  otherwise. 

Sec.  3.  Desig^nation  of  Voting  Places;  Appointment  of  Election  Of- 
ficers:— At  least  twenty  days  prior  to  any  election,  the  city  council  shall 
designate  one  place  of  voting  in  each  precinct  and  shall  appoint  such 
judges  and  inspectors  for  each  place  of  voting  as  may  be  required  by  the 
general  laws  of  the  state  for  state  and  county  elections. 

Sec.  4.     Voting  by  Ballot;  Time  Polls  Open;  Conduct  of  Elections: 

— At  all  elections  the  vote  shall  be  by  ballot,  and  the  polls  shall  be  opened 
at  eight  o'clock  a.  m.,  and  close  at  eight  o'clock  p.  m.  The  manner  of 
conducting  and  voting  at  elections  under  this  charter,  opening  and  clos- 
ing of  polls,  keeping  the  poll  lists,  canvassing  the  votes,  declaring  the 


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result  and  certifying  the  returns,  shall  be  the  same  as  provided  by  the 
laws  of  this  state  for  the  state  and  county  elections  therein;  except  as 
otherwise  provided  in  this  charter.     (As  amended  March  5,  1912.) 

Sec.  5.  jVotice  of  Election: — The  city  clerk,  under  the  direction  of 
the  city  council,  shall  give  thirty  days'  notice  by  posting  at  each  voting 
place  in  the  city,  a  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  holding  each  election, 
and  the  officers  to  be  elected,  or  measure  to  be  submitted,  and  in  all 
cases  notices  shall  be  published  in  the  city  official  newspaper  for  at  least 
ten  days  next  preceding  such  election,  of  the  time,  place  and  purpose  of 
such  election. 

Sec.  6.  Registration  Books  and  Poll  Lists: — It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  city  clerk  to  cause  to  be  made  out  and  delivered  at  each  voting 
place,  by  the  time  fixed  by  law  for  the  opening  of  the  polls,  on  the  day 
of  each  election,  all  necessary  books  and  lists  required  by  the  general 
laws  of  the  state,  for  holding  such  elections. 

Sec.  7.  Canvass  of  Votes  and  Eeturns: — Immediately  after  the 
closing  of  the  polls,  the  judges  and  inspectors  of  election  shall  then  and 
there,  without  removing  the  ballot  box  from  the  place  where  the  ballots 
were  cast,  proceed  to  canvass  the  votes,  and  as  soon  as  such  canvass  is 
completed  a  return  thereof  shall  be  signed  by  the  judges  and  inspectors, 
securely  enveloped  and  sealed,  and  delivered  to  the  city  clerk  by  one  of 
their  number,  not  more  than  twelve  hours  after  the  same  are  so  sealed. 

Sec.  8.  Canvass  of  Returns;  Declaration  of  Result;  Deciding:  Ties; 
Certificates  of  Election: — On  the  first  Friday  evening  after  the  election 
the  city  council  shall,  at  seven  o'clock  p.  m.,  meet  and  proceed  to  canvass 
the  returns  of  such  election,  and  shall  thereupon  declare  the  result,  and 
what  persons  are  elected,  and  in  case  of  a  tie  vote  for  any  office  shall 
decide  by  lot  which  person  having  the  highest  and  equal  number  of 
votes  shall  be  elected  to  such  office.  A  statement  of  such  canvass  shall 
be  made  out  and  signed  by  the  chairman  of  the  council  and  filed  with 
the  city  clerk,  who,  within  three  days  thereafter,  shall  make  out  and 
cause  to  be  delivered  to  each  person  elected  a  certificate  of  election. 

Sec.  9.  Election  Contests: — A  certificate  of  election  shall  be  prima 
facie  evidence  of  the  facts  therein  stated,  but  the  city  council  shall  de- 
cide all  questions  as  to  the  qualifications  and  election  of  its  own  mem- 
bers, and  in  all  cases  of  contested  election  for  any  office  the  contest  shall 
be  decided  by  the  city  council  according,  as  nearly  as  may  be,  to  the 
laws  of  the  state  regulating  proceedings  in  cases  of  contested  elections 
for  county  officers. 

Sec.  10.  Submitting  Questions  to  Voters: — Whenever  any  question 
is  to  be  submitted  to  the  electors  of  the  city  and  the  method  of  such 
submission  is  not  specially  provided  by  this  charter  or  by  general  law, 
the  same  may  be  submitted  at  either  a  general  or  special  election,  and 
the  method  of  submission  shall  be  substantially  as  follows:      The  city 


98  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    XVIII. 

clerk  shall  prepare  a  notice  containing  the  proposition  in  full,  and 
shall  cause  the  same  to  be  posted  as  provided  in  section  five  of  this 
article,  and  to  be  published  in  full  in  the  city  official  newspaper  for 
thirty  days  next  preceding  the  day  of  election,  and  the  ballots  at  such 
election  shall  contain  such  statement  of  the  proposition  as  shall  be 
prescribed  by  ordinance. 

Sec.  11.  Terms  of  Office;  Removal  by  Recall: — The  term  of  all 
elective  officers  of  the  City  of  Seattle  shall  be  two  years  (except  council- 
men-at-large,  which  will  be  four  years),  unless  removed  by  a  method 
hereinafter  provided.  In  case  of  the  removal  of  any  such  officer  by  the 
method  hereinafter  provided,  the  successor  of  said  officer  shall  hold 
office  for  the  remainder  of  the  unexpired  term,  unless  said  successor  is 
removed  by  the  method  hereinafter  provided. 

Petition;  Sig"iiatiires;  Contests;  Affidavits;  Cheeking;  Submission 
to  Council: — The  procedure  to  effect  the  removal  of  an  incumbent  of  an 
elective  office  shall  be  as  follows:  A  petition  signed  by  voters  entitled 
to  vote  for  a  successor  to  the  incumbent,  equal  in  number  to  at  least  25 
per  centum  of  the  entire  vote  for  all  candidates  for  the  office,  the  incum- 
bent of  which  is  sought  to  be  removed,  cast  at  the  last  preceding  gen- 
eral municipal  election,  demanding  an  election  of  a  successor  of  the 
person  to  be  removed,  shall  be  filed  with  the  city  clerk;  Provided,  That 
the  petition  sent  to  the  council  shall  contain  a  general  statement  of 
the  grounds  for  which  the  removal  is  sought.  The  signatures  to  the 
paper  need  not  all  be  appended  to  one  paper,  but  each  signer  shall  add  to 
his  signature  his  place  of  residence,  giving  the  street  and  number.  Any 
person  competent  to  make  affidavit  may  circulate  such  petition.  The 
person  circulating  each  such  paper  shall  make  oath  before  an  officer 
competent  to  administer  oaths,  that  the  statements  therein  made  are 
true,  and  that  each  signature  to  the  paper  appended  is  the  genuine  signa- 
ture of  the  person  whose  name  purports  to  be  thereunto  subscribed. 
Within  ten  days  from  the  date  of  filing  such  petition  the  city  clerk  shall 
examine  the  register  and  therefrom  ascertain  whether  or  not  said  peti- 
tion is  signed  by  the  requisite  number  of  qualified  voters;  and,  if  neces- 
sary, the  council  shall  allow  him  extra  help  for  that  purpose;  and  he 
shall  attach  to  said  petition  his  certificate  showing  the  result  of  said 
examination.  If,  by  the  clerk's  certificate,  the  petition  is  shown  to  be 
insufficient,  it  may  be  amended  within  ten  days  from  the  date  of  said 
certificate.  The  clerk  shall,  within  ten  days  after  such  amendment, 
make  like  examination  of  the  amendment  to  the  petition,  and  if  his 
certificate  shall  show  the  same  to  be  insufficient,  it  shall  be  returned  to 
the  person  filing  the  same  without  prejudice  to  the  filing  of  a  new  peti- 
tion to  the  same  effect.  If  the  petition  shall  be  found  to  be  sufficient, 
the  clerk  shall  submit  the  same  to  the  council  without  delay;  and  there- 
upon the  city  council  shall  order  and  fix  a  date  for  holding  said  election, 
not  less  than  thirty  days  nor  more  than  forty  days  from  the  date  of  the 
clerk's  certificate  to  the  council  that  a  sufficient  petition  is  filed. 

Recall  Election;  Term  of  Successor;  Incumbent  a  Candidate: — The 

city  council  shall  make  or  cause  to  be  made  publication  of  notice,  and 


SECTION  12,  ARTICLE  XVIII. 

Section  12.  (Adopted  March  't,  19 IS.)  Candidate  to  File  Itemized 
Statement  of  Expenses: — Every  candidate  for  nomination  to  any  elective 
office,  and  every  person  nominated  to  any  such  office,  under  the  charter 
of  the  City  of  Seattle,  shall,  within  ten  (10)  days  after  the  day  of  holding 
the  primary  election  at  which  he  is  a  candidate  or  the  election  at  which 
he  is  elected,  file  an  itemized  statement  in  writing,  upon  a  suitable  form 
to  be  furnished  by  the  city  comptroller,  duly  sworn  to  as  to  its  correct- 
ness, with  the  officer  with  whom  his  declaration  of  candidacy  or  other 
nomination  paper  is  filed,  setting  forth  each  sum  of  money  and  thing 
of  value,  or  any  consideration  whatever,  contributed,  paid  or  promised 
by  him,  or  any  one  for  him,  with  his  knowledge  or  acquiescence,  for  the 
purpose  of  securing  or  infiuencing  in  any  way  affecting  his  nomination 
or  election  to  said  office.  Said  statement  to  set  forth  the  sums  paid  as 
personal  expenses  and  stating  fully  the  nature,  kind  and  character  of  the 
expense  for  which  the  sums  were  expended  separately,  and  the  party  or 
parties  to  whom  the  sums  were  paid  and  the  purposes  for  which  such 
payments  were  made,  and  in  this  statement  all  sums  or  other  considera- 
tions promised  and  not  paid  shall  be  included.  Such  statement,  when  so 
filed  shall  immediately  be  subject  to  the  inspection  and  examination  of 
any  elector,  and  shall  be  and  become  a  part  of  the  public  record. 

Proof  of  violation  hereof  shall  disqualify  such  candidate  or  nominee 
from  holding  such  office. 


CHARTER.  ARTICLE  XIX. 


99 


all  arrangements  for  holding  of  such  election;  and  the  same  shall  be 
conducted,  returned  and  the  result  thereof  declared,  in  all  respects,  as 
are  other  elections.  The  successor  of  any  ofRcer  so  removed  shall  hold 
office  during  the  unexpired  term  of  his  predecessor.  Any  person  sought 
to  be  removed  may  be  a  candidate  to  succeed  himself,  and  unless  he  re- 
quests otherwise  in  writing,  the  clerk  shall  place  his  name  on  the  official 
ballot  without  nomination.  In  any  such  election  the  candidate  receiving 
the  highest  number  of  votes  shall  be  declared  elected. 

Largest  Vote  Elects;  To  Qualify;  Vacancy; — At  such  election,  if 
some  other  person  than  the  incumbent  receives  the  highest  number  of 
votes,  the  incumbent  shall  thereupon  be  deemed  removd  from  the  office 
upon  the  qualification  of  his  successor.  In  case  the  party  who  receives 
the  highest  number  of  votes  should  fail  to  qualify  within  ten  days  after 
receiving  notification  of  election,  the  office  shall  be  deemed  vacant.  If 
the  incumbent  receives  the  highest  number  of  votes  he  shall  continue 
in  office. 

Eepealing-  Clause; — All  parts  of  the  charter  of  said  City  of  Seattle 
in  conflict  with  this  amendment  are  hereby  repealed.  (As  adopted 
Murrh  6.  1906.) 


ARTICLE  XIX. 

OFFICERS,  TERMS  AND  VACANCIES. 

Section  1.  Elective  Officers; — The  elective  officers  of  the  City  of 
Seattle  shall  be:  A  mayor,  a  comptroller,  who  shall  be  ex-officio  city 
clerk,  a  corporation  counsel,  a  treasurer,  and  the  members  of  the  city 
council. 

Sec.  2.  Appointive  Officers; — The  appointive  officers  of  the  City  of 
Seattle  shall  be:  A  city  engineer,  a  superintendent  of  streets,  sewers 
and  parks,  a  superintendent  of  lighting  and  water  works,  an  assistant  to 
the  corporation  counsel,  a  city  attorney,  a  commissioner  of  labor,  a 
health  ofRcer,  a  sanitary  inspector,  three  members  of  the  board  of  health, 
a  boiler  inspector,  a  port  warden,  a  librarian,  five  library  commission- 
ers, a  chief  of  police,  a  chief  of  the  fire  department,  three  civil  service 
commissioners,  a  secretary  of  the  board  of  public  works,  five  park  com- 
mitteemen, and  such  other  officers  as  the  electors  of  the  city,  at  any 
general  election  upon  submission  of  the  council,  may  authorize  the 
council  to  create. 

Sec.  3.     Qualification  of  Elective  Officers  and  of  Officers  Appointed 

by  >Iayor; — All  elective  officers  of  the  city  shall  possess  the  following 
qualifications:  They  shall  be  citizens  of  the  United  States  and  of  the 
City  of  Seattle  and  electors  therein,  and  shall  be  able  to  read  and  write 
the  English  language,  and  shall  have  such  other  qualifications  as  are 
prescribed  in  this  charter.  All  officers  appointed  by  the  mayor,  shall 
be  recognized  experts  in  such  work  as  may  devolve  on  the  incumbents 


iOO  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    XIX. 

of  such  offices,  or  persons  specially  fitted  by  education,  training  or  ex- 
perience to  perform  the  same,  and  shall  be  appointed  without  regard  to 
party  affiliation  or  to  residence  at  the  time  of  appointment.  (As 
amended  March  5,  1912.) 

Sec.  4.  Terms  of  Appointhe  Officers: — Unless  otherwise  expressly 
provided  in  this  charter,  and  expressly  subject  to  the  provisions  of  article 
XVI.  thereof,  the  term  of  every  appointive  officer  shall  expire  at  the 
same  time  at  which  the  terms  of  the  elective  officers  for  the  current  term 
shall  expire. 

Sec.  5.  Terms  of  Elective  Officers;  Qualifications  and  Commence- 
ment of  Term:^ — The  term  of  every  elective  officer  under  this  charter, 
except  councilman  shall  be  for  two  years.  Every  person  elected  shall 
qualify  on  or  before  the  second  Saturday  after  his  election,  and  his  term 
of  office  shall  commence  at  12  o'clock,  noon,  on  the  second  Monday  after 
the  canvass  of  the  election  by  the  city  council. 

Sec.  6.  Oath  of  Office;  Official  Bond;  Vacancies: — Every  council- 
man and  every  other  officer  of  the  city,  and  each  of  his  assistants,  before 
entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  office,  shall  take  and  subscribe  an  oath  or 
affirmation  before  some  person  authorized  to  administer  oaths,  that  he 
possesses  all  the  qualifications  prescribed  for  his  office  by  this  charter; 
that  he  will  support  the  constitution  of  the  United  States,  and  of  the 
State  of  Washington,  and  the  charter  and  ordinances  of  the  City  of 
Seattle;  that  he  will  faithfully  comply  with  and  abide  by  all  the  require- 
ments of  section  13  of  this  article,  and  that  he  will  faithfully  demean 
himself  in  office.  Every  officer  of  the  corporation,  when  so  required 
by  law  or  ordinance,  shall,  before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  office, 
and  within  ten  days  after  his  election  or  appointment,  give  bond  to  the 
city  in  such  sum  as  shall  be  designated  by  ordinance  or  otherwise,  con- 
ditioned for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duties,  and  that  he  will  pay 
over  all  moneys  belonging  to  the  city,  as  provided  by  law.  And  if  any 
person  elected  or  appointed  to  any  office  shall  fail  to  take  or  subscribe 
such  oath  or  affirmation,  or  to  give  bond,  as  herein  required,  his  office 
shall  be  deemed  vacant. 

Sec.  7.  Vacancies;  Failure  to  Qualify;  Death;  Removal;  Resigna- 
tion; Removal  From  City;  Absence  Without  Leave;  Insanity;  Conviction 
of  Drunkenness;  Permanent  Disability: — An  office  becomes  vacant  on 
failure  to  qualify  within  the  time  limited  by  the  charter,  upon  the  death 
or  removal  from  office  or  resignation  of  the  incumbent,  or  his  removal 
from  or  absence  from  the  city  for  sixty  days  without  leave  of  the  city 
council,  or  upon  an  adjudication  of  insanity  by  a  court  of  competent  jur- 
isdiction; by  a  conviction  of  drunkenness,  or  by  any  permanent  dis- 
ability,  preventing  the   proper  discharge  of  his   duty. 

Sec.  8.  Vacancies;  How  Filled: — If  any  appointive  office  become 
vacant,  the  same  shall,  except  as  is  otherwise  provided  in  this  charter, 


OFFICERS,    TERMS    AND   VACANCI7i3S'.  101 

be  filled  in  the  same  manner  as  if  at  the  beginning  of  the  term,  and 
the  person  appointed  to  fill  the  vacancy  shall  hold  for  the  unexpired 
term.  If  any  elective  office  become  vacant,  the  city  council  shall,  within 
twenty  days  thereafter,  proceed  to  elect  by  ballot  a  person  to  fill  such 
vacancy  who  shall  possess  the  qualifications  of  the  original  incumbent; 
Provided,  That  if  any  such  office  shall  not  be  filled  within  the  time  above 
limited,  the  city  council  shall  meet  and  ballot  at  least  once  each  day  until 
such  vacancy  shall  have  been  filled.  Persons  elected  to  fill  vacancies  in 
elective  offices  shall  hold  the  office  until  the  next  regular  city  election, 
and  at  such  election  a  person  shall  be  elected  to  hold  the  office  for  the 
remainder  of  the  term.  Persons  elected  to  fill  vacancies  shall  qualify 
within  the  same  time  after  their  election  and  in  the  same  manner  as 
prescribed  for  persons  elected  for  full  terms. 

Sec.  9.     Suspensions  and  Removals;   Temporary  Vacancies: — Any 

elective  officer  other  than  a  member  of  the  council  may  be  suspended  by 
the  mayor  and  removed  for  cause  by  the  council,  as  hereinafter  provided 
and  the  mayor  shall  temporarily  fill  the  vacancy,  except  as  hereinafter 
provided.  Any  officer  appointed  by  the  mayor  may  be  removed  by  him, 
except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this  charter,  upon  filing  with  the  city 
council  a  statement  of  his  reasons  therefor.  Any  member  of  the  council 
may  be  suspended  or  removed  by  the  council  as  hereinafter  provided. 

Sec.  10.  Suspension  of  Elective  Officers;  Notice;  Meeting  of  Coun- 
cil; Charges;  Hearing-: — Whenever  the  mayor  shall  suspend  any  elec- 
tive officer  he  shall  immediately  notify  the  city  council  of  such  suspen- 
sion and  the  cause  thereof,  and  shall  forthwith  call  a  meeting  of  the 
council,  at  which  he  shall  present  charges  against  such  suspended 
officer.  The  accused  shall  be  furnished  with  a  copy  of  the  charges,  and 
shall  have  a  right  to  appear  with  counsel  and  make  his  defense.  The 
city  council  shall  speedily  try  such  officer  on  such  charge,  and  for  that 
purpose  shall  have  power  to  adjourn  from  time  to  time  until  the  trial 
shall  be  completed,  to  summon  and  compel  the  attendance  of  witnesses, 
to  hear  their  testimony,  to  receive  other  evidence,  and  to  hear  the 
arguments  of  counsel. 

Suspension  of  Councilmen;  Charges;  Trial;  Removal;  Election  of 
Successor: — In  case  of  the  suspension  of  a  member  of  the  city  council  by 
that  body,  the  member  so  suspended  shall  be  tried  in  like  manner  as 
herein  provided  for  the  trial  of  officers  suspended  by  the  mayor,  except 
that  the  charges  may  be  preferred  by  any  elector  or  member  of  the  city 
council.  In  either  case,  the  president  of  the  city  council  shall  preside 
at  such  trial,  and  in  his  absence  or  disability  the  acting  president:  If 
two-thirds  of  all  the  members  of  the  city  council  shall  by  resolution  find 
the  accused  guilty,  then  the  suspended  officer  shall  thereby  be  removed 
from  office.  The  successor  of  any  officer  so  removed,  if  elected  by  the 
council,  shall  be  chosen  from  the  same  political  party  as  the  officer 
removed. 

Sec.  11.  Elective  Officers  to  Hold  Over: — Every  elective  officer 
shall  hold  office  until  his  successor  is  elected  and  qualified,  except  as 
otherwise  in  this  charter  provided. 


102  .,;/•.:••  t'HkRTER,    ARTICLE    XX. 

Sec.  12.  Appointive  Officers  to  Hold  Over: — Every  appointive  of- 
ficer stiall  liold  office  until  his  successor  is  appointed  and  qualified,  except 
as  otiierwise  in  this  charter  provided. 

Sec.  13.  Officers  ]Not  to  Hold  Other  Office,  Exceptions;  ^Xot  Inter- 
ested in  Contracts;  Not  to  Accept  Passes;  Forfeiture  of  Office;  Forfeiture 
of  Salary;  Recovery  of  Forfeited  Salary: — No  head  of  department  or 
other  elective  or  appointive  officer,  councilman  or  member  of  any  board, 
commission  or  bureau,  created  by  or  under  this  charter,  except  police- 
men or  firemen,  shall  hold  any  other  office,  federal,  state,  county  or 
municipal,  except  in  the  National  Guard  or  as  a  notary  public,  or  be  an 
employe  of  the  city  or  any  other  department,  commission,  board,  bureau, 
institution,  or  office  of  the  city  government;  or  be  directly  or  indirectly 
interested  in  any  contract  witli  the  city,  or  with  or  for  any  department, 
institution,  board,  bureau,  officer,  agent  or  employe  thereof,  for  the  use 
of  the  city,  or  become  surety  for  the  performance  of  any  such  contract. 
Nor  shall  any  officer  accept  from  any  railroad  or  street  railroad  corpora- 
tion, operating  in  v^hole  or  in  part  within  the  city,  any  pass  or  free 
transportation,  or  transportation  upon  any  terms  save  such  as  are  open 
to  the  public  generally.  The  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  work  a  forfeiture  of  the  office  of  the  officer  violating  the 
same,  and  warrant  his  removal  from  office  by  impeachment  or  other 
proper  procedure.  Any  such  officer  guilty  of  accepting  such  pass,  free 
transportation,  or  transportation  upon  terms  not  open  to  the  public  gen- 
erally, shall,  in  addition  to  forfeiting  his  office  as  above  provided,  forfeit 
to  the  city  all  sums  of  money  paid  him  by  the  city  as  salary  during  the 
term  in  which  he  shall  be  guilty  of  such  misconduct,  up  to  the  time  of 
the  recovery  of  judgment  thereof  against  him  therefor ;  and  a  civil  action 
for  the  recovery  thereof  may  at  any  time  be  commenced  in  the  name  of 
the  city  by  the  corporation  counsel  upon  complaint  verified  by  any  citizen 
of  the  city. 

Elective  Officers  Not  Eligible  to  Other  City  Office  During  Term:— 

No  person  elected  to  any  such  office  in  this  city  and  who  has  accepted 
the  said  office  and  entered  upon  the  duties  thereof  shall,  except  when 
otherwise  in  this  charter  or  by  general  law  of  the  state  expressly  pro- 
vided, be  eligible  to  any  appointive  office  in  the  city  during  the  term  for 
which  he  was  so  elected.     (As  amended  March  5,  1912.) 


ARTICLE  XX. 

AMENDMENTS. 

Section  1.  Amendments;  Proposed  by  Council;  Submission  to 
Voters;  Adoption;  Mayor's  Proclamation;  Vote  on  Separate  Amend- 
ments; Publication  Before  Submission: — Any  amendment  or  amend- 
ments to  this  charter  may  be  proposed  in  the  city  council,  and  if  the 
same  be  agreed  to  by  a  majority  of  all  the  members  elected,  such  pro- 
posed amendment  or  amendments   shall  be   entered  upon   the  journal 


AMENDMENTS.  103 

with  the  yeas  and  nays  of  the  members  voting  thereon.  Upon  the  pas- 
sage of  any  such  amendment  or  amendments,  the  same  shall  be  sub- 
mitted to  the  electors  of  the  city  for  their  ratification  at  the  next  general 
election,  which  shall  be  at  least  sixty  days  after  the  adoption  of  such  pro- 
posed amendment  in  the  council;  and  if  at  such  election  any  such  amend- 
ment shall  be  ratified  by  a  majority  of  the  qualified  electors  voting  there- 
on, the  same  shall  thereby  become  a  part  of  this  charter,  and  within 
five  days  after  such  election  shall  be  by  the  mayor  by  proclamation  pub- 
lished in  the  city  official  newspaper  and  proclaimed  a  part  thereof; 
Provided,  That  if  more  than  one  amendment  be  submitted  at  the  same 
general  election  the  same  shall  be  submitted  at  such  election  in  such 
manner  that  each  proposed  amendment  may  be  voted  on  separately  with- 
out prejudice  to  others;  And  provided  further,  That  after  the  passage  of 
such  proposed  amendments  through  the  council  the  same  shall  be  pub- 
lished by  the  city  clerk  in  two  daily  newspapers  published  in  said  city, 
for  at  least  thirty  days  prior  to  the  day  of  submitting  the  same  to  the 
electors  for  their  approval,  as  above  provided.  (As  amended  March  't, 
1902.) 

Sec.  2.  Amendments;  Proposed  by  Voters;  Submission  to  Voters; 
Opinion  of  Corporation  Counsel  and  Certificate;  Check  With  Registra- 
tion; Unlawful  Signatures;  Ratification  and  Election;  Mayor's  Procla- 
mation; Vote  on  Separate  Amendments;  Publication  Before  Submission: 

— Whenever  twenty  per  cent,  of  the  qualified  voters  of  the  city  registered 
in  the  registration  list  used  at  the  last  general  municipal  election  shall 
present  to  the  city  council  a  proposition  for  an  amendment  to  the  city 
charter,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  council  to  submit  the  same  to  the 
qualified  voters  of  the  city  for  their  ratification  or  rejection  at  the  next 
general  election,  which  shall  be  at  least  ninety  days  after  the  presenta- 
tion of  such  petition  to  the  city  council;  such  submission  shall  be  made 
by  resolution  to  the  city  council,  which  shall  be  adopted  at  least  sixty 
days  prior  to  such  election.  Before  any  such  proposition  shall  be  cir- 
culated for  signatures,  it  shall  be  presented  to  the  city  clerk,  who  shall 
procure  the  opinion  of  the  corporation  counsel  as  to  its  legality,  and  shall 
certify  upon  it  the  date  of  its  presentation  to  him,  and  attach  thereto  a 
copy  of  such  opinion.  When  such  proposition  shall  be  presented  to  the 
council,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  city  clerk  to  examine  and  verify  all 
signatures  thereto,  so  far  as  practicable,  from  a  comparison  with  the 
registration  lists  in  his  office,  and  the  report  of  the  city  clerk  thereon 
shall  be  made  to  the  council  before  final  action.  The  council  shall  pro- 
vide by  ordinance  a  penalty  for  affixing  to  any  such  proposition  any 
signature  other  than  the  signatures  in  person  of  electors  duly  registered 
in  the  registration  list  used  in  the  last  general  municipal  election.  If 
at  the  general  election,  at  which  the  same  is  submitted,  a  majority  of 
the  lawful  voters  voting  thereat  shall  by  their  votes  ratify  any  amend- 
ment so  submitted,  the  same  shall  thereby  become  a  part  of  the  charter, 
and  within  five  days  after  such  election  shall  be  by  the  mayor  by  procla- 
mation published  in  the  city  official  newspaper  proclaimed  a  part  thereof; 
Provided,  That  if  more  than  one  amendment  be  petitioned  for  and  sub- 
mitted at  the  same  general  election,  the  same  shall  be  petitioned  for  and 


104  CHARTER,   ARTICLES   XXI    AND    XXII. 

submitted  in  such  manner  that  electors  may  vote  for  or  against  the 
amendments  separately;  And  provided  further,  That  after  the  passage  of 
the  resolution  making  each  submission  by  the  city  council,  every  such 
amendment  shall  be  published  by  the  city  clerk  in  the  city  official  news-  I 

paper  for  a  period  of  thirty  days  prior  to  such  election,  together  with  a  | 

notice  by  the  mayor  that  the  same  is  submitted  to  the  qualified  voters  4 

of  the  city  for  their  rejection  or  approval  at  the  said  coming  election.  1 


ARTICLE  XXI. 

STREETS  UPON  TIDE  LANDS  AND  SEA  AND  LAKE  SHORES. 

Section  1.  Streets  Over  Tide  Lands  and  Into  Lakes  Continued  and 
Established:^ — All  streets,  avenues  and  other  public  highways  heretofore 
established  upon,  over  or  across  any  tide  lands  within  the  City  of  Seattle, 
or  into  the  waters  of  Lake  Washington,  Lake  Union,  Green  Lake  or  other 
lakes,  streams  or  bodies  of  fresh  water  within  the  City  of  Seattle,  either 
under  and  by  virtue  of  the  constitution  and  laws  of  the  State  of  Wash- 
ington or  under  and  by  virtue  of  any  charter  or  ordinance  of  the  City 
of  Seattle,  or  by  the  dedication  of  any  plat  within  the  city,  or  by  any  other 
lawful  authority  established  as  public  streets  or  highways,  are  hereby 
continued,  established  and  declared  to  be  public  streets  and  highways 
of  the  City  of  Seattle,  subject  to  the  same  power  of  the  city  to  control, 
improve  or  vacate  the  same  as  is  or  shall  be  provided  for  other  public 
streets  and  highways  within  the  city. 

Sec.  2.  Extension,  Establishment  and  Vacation  of  Tide  and  Shore 
Land  Streets: — The  city  council  may  by  ordinance  extend,  establish  or 
vacate  any  street  over  or  across  or  along  the  harbor,  shore  or  tide  lands 
in  the  city. 

ARTICLE  XXII. 

INSPECTION  OF  STEAM  BOILERS  AND  LICENSING  OF  ENGINEERS. 

Section  1.  Steam  Boiler  Inspector;  Appointment;  Removal; 
Duties;  Inspection  of  Boilers: — ^The  mayor  shall  appoint,  after  competi- 
tive examination  by  competent  engineers,  under  civil  service  rules,  a 
steam  boiler  inspector,  who  may,  subject  to  the  provisions  of  article 
XVI.  of  this  charter,  be  removed  by  the  mayor,  and  whose  duty  it  shall 
be  to  inspect  at  least  once  each  year  all  steam  boilers  and  steam  connec- 
tions thereof  within  the  city  limits,  except  the  following:  Locomotive 
boilers,  boilers  for  heating  or  lighting  private  dwellings,  boilers  subject 
to  inspection  by  United  States  inspectors,  and  such  others  as  may  be 
excepted  by  the  city  council.  The  boiler  inspector  shall  perform  such 
other  duties  as  may  be  prescribed  by  ordinance.  The  inspection  of 
boilers  shall  be  thorough  and  as  near  as  may  be  in  accordance  with  the 
provisions  of  the  revised  statutes  of  the  United  States  relating  to  the 
inspection  of  steam  boilers. 


HOURS    OF    LABOR.  105 

Sec.  2.  Board  of  Examiners  of  Engineers  in  Charge  of  Steam 
Boilers;  Salaries  and  Compensation  of  Members  of: — All  engineers  em- 
ployed and  in  charge  of  any  steam  boiler  under  pressure  in  the  city  shall 
be  licensed  annually  after  an  examination  as  to  fitness  and  capacity  in 
the  following  manner:  The  civil  service  commission  shall  appoint  a 
board  of  examiners  of  three  (3)  members,  who  shall  examine  and  certify 
all  applicants  for  engineer's  license,  under  such  rules  as  may  be  pre- 
scribed by  the  civil  service  commission.  The  members  of  the  board  of 
examiners  shall  receive  such  salary  or  compensation  as  the  city  council 
may  by  ordinance  prescribe.     (As  ((mended  March  3^  1908.) 

Sec.  3.     Steam    Boilers;    Operation;    Compensation    of    Inspector; 

Fees: — No  person  shall  operate  any  steam  boiler  within  the  city  limits 
without  first  obtaining  a  license  of  the  proper  grade,  nor  shall  any  person 
employ  an  unlicensed  person  to  operate  any  such  boiler.  The  city  coun- 
cil shall  enact  all  ordinances  necessary  and  proper  for  carrying  into  effect 
the  provisions  of  this  article,  including  therein  suitable  penalties  for 
any  violation  of  the  requirements  of  such  ordinances,  and  shall  make 
all  appropriations  necessary  therefor,  and  shall  fix  the  compensation  of 
the  boiler  inspector  upon  the  basis  of  work  actually  performed;  and 
shall  also  fix  the  license  fee  for  engineers  and  the  fees  for  the  inspection 
of  boilers;  Provided,  That  in  no  case  shall  the  expenses  of  the  ofPce  of 
boiler  inspector,  including  salary,  exceed  the  receipts  from  the  license 
fees  and  fees  for  examining  boilers  and  other  income  of  said  office;  And 
provided  further,  The  fee  for  an  inspection  may  not  exceed  five  cents  per 
horse  power,  nor  the  fee  for  a  license  the  sum  of  two  dollars. 


ARTICLE  XXIII. 

HOURS  OF  LABOR. 

Section  1.  Eight  Hours  a  Day's  Work: — In  all  public  works  done 
by  or  for  the  city,  either  by  day's  work  or  by  contract,  eight  hours  shall 
constitute  a  day's  work;  and  no  employe  of  the  city  on  city  works,  or  of 
any  contractor  or  sub-contractor  of  such  work  shall  be  required  to  work 
longer  than  eight  hours  in  any  one  calendar  day;  Provided,  however. 
That  this  article  shall  not  be  so  construed  as  to  in  any  manner  apply 
to,  or  affect  any  contract  entered  into  by  the  city  prior  to  the  adoption 
of  this  charter.  This  article  shall  be  enforced  by  the  city  council  by 
ordinance. 

Sec.  2.     Minimum  Wage  to  Be  Paid  on  Local  Improvement  Work: 

—Every  contractor  and  sub-contractor  performing  any  local  improve- 
ment work  for  the  City  of  Seattle  shall  pay  or  cause  to  be  paid  to  his 
employes  on  such  work  not  less  than  the  current  rate  of  wages  paid  by 
the  City  of  Seattle  for  work  of  like  character  and  in  any  event  not  less 
than  two  and  seventy-five  hundredths  ($2.75)  dollars  per  day.  Said 
contractor  and  sub-contractor  shall,  on  such  work,  give  preference  to 
resident  laborers.  This  article  shall  be  enforced  by  the  city  council  by 
ordinance.     (As  adopted  5,  1912.) 


106  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    XXIV. 


ARTICLE  XXIV. 
MISCELLANEOUS  SUBJECTS. 

Section  1.     3Ioiiey    in    Treasury    Credited    to    Proper   Funds: — All 

moneys  in  the  city  treasury  at  the  time  of  the  adoption  of  this  charter, 
belonging  to  the  several  funds,  shall  be  credited  to  the  several  funds  to 
which  the  same  belong  under  the  provisions  of  this  charter. 

Sec.  2.  Privileges  Granted  by  Ordinance: — No  privilege  shall  be 
granted  that  suspends  or  conflicts  with  any  ordinance,  except  by  an  ordi- 
nance passed  by  the  city  council. 

Sec.  3.     Books  and  Records  Open  to  Inspection;   Certified  Copies; 

Fees:- — All  books  and  records  of  every  office  and  department  shall  be 
open  to  the  inspection  of  any  citizen  at  any  time  during  business  hours. 
Copies  or  extracts  from  said  books  and  records,  duly  certified,  shall  be 
given  by  the  officer  having  the  same  in  custody  to  any  person  demand- 
ing the  same,  and  paying  or  tendering,  for  the  use  of  the  city,  ten  cents 
per  folio  of  one  hundred  words  for  such  copies  or  extracts. 

Sec.  4.  Public  Offices  Open,  When: — Except  when  otherwise  pro- 
vided by  law  or  this  charter,  all  public  offices  shall  be  kept  open  for  busi- 
ness every  day,  except  Sundays  and  legal  holidays,  from  nine  o'clock  in 
the  forenoon  until  five  o'clock  in  the  afternoon. 

Sec.  5.  Offices  Created,  Persons  Employed,  and  Compensation 
Fixed,  by  Law: — No  office  shall  be  created,  nor  shall  any  person  be  em- 
ployed in  any  capacity,  nor  shall  any  officer,  clerk  or  employe  receive 
any  salary  or  compensation  for  any  service  of  any  kind,  unless  the  same 
is  specially  provided  for  or  authorized  by  law  or  this  charter. 

Sec.  6.  Certain  Officers  May  Administer  Oaths: — Every  officer  au- 
thorized by  law  or  ordinance  to  allow,  audit  or  certify  demands  upon 
the  treasury,  or  to  make  any  official  investigation,  shall  have  power  to 
administer  oaths  and  affirmations  and  take  and  hear  testimony  concern- 
ing any  matter  or  thing  relating  thereto. 

Sec.  7.  Officers  Liable  for  Approval,  Allowance  or  Payment  of  Un- 
authorized Claims: — Every  officer  who  shall  approve,  allow  or  pay  any 
demand  on  the  treasury  not  authorized  by  law,  ordinance  or  this  charter, 
shall  be  liable  to  the  city  individually  and  on  his  official  bond  for  the 
amount  paid  by  the  city  upon  such  demand  in  excess  of  the  amount 
lawfully  due  from  the  city  thereon. 

Sec.  8.  Power  to  Appoint  Gives  Power  to  Remove: — Unless  other- 
wise provided  by  law  or  this  charter,  each  officer,  board  or  department 
authorized  to  appoint  any  deputy,  clerk,  assistant  or  employe,  shall  have 
the  right  to  remove  any  person  so  appointed. 

Sec.  9.  Appointments  in  Writing:  Filing: — All  appointments  of 
officers,  deputies  and  clerks  to  be  made  under  any  provision  of  this 
charter  must  be  made  in  writing,  and  authenticated  by  the  person  or 
persons,  board  or  officer  making  the  same,  and  filed  with  the  comptroller. 


MISCELLANEOUS    SUBJECTS.  107 

Sec.  10.     Appointive  Officers  to  Hold  Until  Successors  Appointed: — 

All  appointive  officers  of  the  City  of  Seattle  in  office  when  this  charter 
takes  effect  shall  continue  to  hold  and  exercise  their  respective  offices 
under  and  in  accordance  with  the  terms  and  provisions  and  obligations 
of  this  charter,  until  the  appointment  and  qualification  of  their  respec- 
tive successors  or  the  officers  who  shall  succeed  to  their  duties  under 
this  charter. 

Sec.  11.     Terms  of  Officers  in  Office  When  Charter  Adopted :^ — The 

mayor,  city  treasurer,  corporation  counsel  and  city  clerk  who  are  in  office 
at  the  time  this  charter  takes  effect,  shall  continue  in  office  for  the  re- 
mainder of  their  terms,  and  the  three  first  named  until  their  respective 
successors  shall  have  qualified.  The  mayor,  city  treasurer  and  corpora- 
tion counsel  elected  at  the  general  municipal  election  in  March,  1896, 
shall  hold  their  respective  offices  to  all  intents  and  purposes  as  if  they 
had  been  elected  under  this  charter.  The  office  of  city  clerk  as  a  separate 
office  shall  terminate  with  the  term  of  the  incumbent  who  was  elected 
at  the  general  election  in  the  year  1894,  and  the  person  elected  city 
clerk  at  the  general  election  in  the  year  1896  shall  not  take  office. 

Sec.  12.  Term  of  Office  of  Comptroller;  Appointment  of  Successor; 
Term: — The  term  of  office  of  the  city  comptroller  who  is  in  office  at  the 
time  this  charter  is  adopted  shall  continue  for  the  period  of  his  orginal 
appointment,  and  until  his  successor  is  appointed  and  qualified.  His 
successor  shall  be  appointed  by  the  mayor,  by  and  with  the  advice  and 
consent  of  the  city  council,  and  shall  hold  office  until  his  successor  is 
elected,  in  the  year  1898,  and  qualified.  The  person  or  persons  who 
shall  be  city  comptroller  during  the  interim  between  the  expiration  of 
the  term  of  the  present  city  clerk  and  the  first  election  and  qualification 
of  city  comptroller  herein  provided  for  shall  be  ex-officio  city  clerk  and 
shall  receive  compensation  at  the  rate  herein  provided  for  city  comp- 
troller. 

Sec.  13.  Acquisition  and  Establishment  of  Public  Cemetery;  Funds 
Provided  by  Warrants;  Redemption  of  Warrants: — It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  city  council  to  purchase  or  otherwise  acquire  in  the  manner  and 
out  of  the  fund  herein  provided  for  a  tract  of  land  without  the  corporate 
limits  of  not  less  than  one  hundred  acres,  and  establish  thereon  a  public 
cemetery.  In  order  to  provide  a  fund  for  such  purpose,  the  city  council 
may  cause  to  be  issued  and  sold  at  not  less  than  par,  warrants  to  the 
amount  necessary  for  such  purchase,  or  other  acquisition,  not  to  exceed, 
however,  the  sum  of  Twenty  Thousand  Dollars,  bearing  a  reasonable  rate 
of  interest,  not  to  exceed  eight  per  centum  per  annum,  or  may  pay  for 
said  land  with  the  warrants  so  issued.  In  order  to  provide  for  the  re- 
demption of  said  warrants  and  the  payment  of  interest  thereon,  seventy- 
five  per  centum  of  the  proceeds  of  all  sales  of  burial  lots  in  said  ceme- 
tery shall  be  set  apart  and  made  a  special  fund  applicable  solely  to 
that  purpose.  The  warrants  so  issued  shall  not  be  or  become  a  debt  or 
obligation  of  the  city,  but  shall  be  payable  only  out  of  the  said  special 
fund. 

Sec.  14.     Submission  of  Question  of  Acquiring:  Lighting  Plant: — At 

the  first  general  muncipal  election  after  the  city  shall  be  by  any  exten- 


108  CHARTER.    ARTICLE    XXV. 

sion  of  its  water  system  supplied  with  sufficient  water  power  therefor,  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  council  to  submit  to  the  electors  of  the  city  the 
question  as  to  whether  it  shall  acquire  for  the  city  by  purchase  or  con- 
struction, or  both,  a  plant  and  system  for  furnishing  light  or  power,  or 
both,  for  corporate  or  individual  use,  or  both  such  uses. 

Sec.  15.  Charter  Submitted  March  3,  1896.  This  charter  is  framed 
with  the  intent  that  it  be  submitted  at  the  general  municipal  election 
on  the  third  day  of  March,  A.  D.  1896. 


ARTICLE  XXV. 
MUNICIPAL  PLANS  COMMISSION. 

Section  1.     Commission   Created;    Number;    To   Prepare   Plans: — 

That  there  be  and  hereby  is  created  a  commission  to  be  known  as  a 
Municipal  Plans  Commission,  which  shall  consist  of  twenty-one  mem- 
bers. It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  commission  to  procure  plans  for  the 
arrangement  of  the  city  with  a  view  to  such  expansion  as  may  meet 
probable  future  demands.  These  plans  shall  take  into  consideration 
the  extension  of  the  city  and  city  works  into  adjacent  territory;  im- 
provement and  changes  in  public  utilities  and  lines  of  transportation 
by  surface,  underground  and  water;  the  location,  widths  and  grades  of 
arterial  highways  necessary  for  the  best  treatment  of  the  city;  the  devel- 
opment of  the  water  front  with  its  sea  wall  and  wharves;  the  location 
of  public  buildings  and  municipal  decorations;  and  such  further  exten- 
sions of  and  additions  to  the  park  and  boulevard  system  of  the  city  as 
it  may,  in  conjunction  with  the  park  board,  find  advisable.  (As  adopted 
March  8,  1910.) 

Sec.  2.  Commission,  How  Chosen: — The  members  of  such  commis- 
sion shall  be  citizens  of  the  City  of  Seattle  and  shall  be  chosen  in  the 
following  manner,  to-wit:  Three  shall  be  elected  from  the  city  council 
by  its  members;  one  shall  be  elected  from  the  board  of  public  works  by 
its  members;  in  the  same  way  one  member  shall  be  elected  from  the 
King  county  commissioners;  one  from  the  Seattle  board  of  education 
and  one  from  the  Seattle  park  commission.  The  other  members  shall 
be  appointed  by  the  mayor  in  the  following  manner,  to-wit:  Each 
organization  hereinafter  named  shall  nominate  two  of  its  members  and 
the  mayor  shall  appoint  one  of  the  two  so  nominated.  The  interests 
representing  the  water  front  owners,  steam  railway  companies,  street 
railway  companies  and  marine  transportation  companies  shall  organize, 
respectively,  by  mass  meetings,  at  which  a  chairman  and  secretary  shall 
be  elected,  and  such  officials  shall  certify  to  the  mayor  the  two  names 
elected  at  such  meetings.  The  call  for  such  meetings  shall  be  given 
publicity  in  the  press  of  the  city: 

The  Pacific  Northwest  Society  of  Civil  Engineers. 

The  Washington  State  Chapter  of  American  Institute  of  Architects. 

The  Seattle  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

The  Seattle  Commercial  Club. 


MUNICIPAL    PLANS    COMMISSION.  109 

The  Manufacturers'  Association. 

The  Central  Labor  Council. 

The  Seattle  Clearing  House  Association. 

The  Seattle  Bar  Association. 

The  Seattle  Real  Estate  Association. 

The  Carpenters'  Union. 

The  Waterfront  Owners. 

The  Steam  Railway  Companies. 

The  Marine  Transportation  Companies. 

The  Street  Railway  Companies. 

In  case  of  failure  of  any  of  said  organizations  or  interests  to  nomi- 
nate, then  these  members  are  to  be  appointed  by  the  mayor,  and  each 
shall  be  chosen  for  his  known  qualifications  with  respect  to  the  interests 
which  shall  have  failed  to  certify  its  nominations.  (As  adopted  March 
8.  1910.) 

Sec.  3.  Membership  Not  Bar  to  Other  Office: — Any  member  of  such 
commission  may  hold  any  other  office,  whether  federal,  state,  county 
or  municipal,  or  may  be  an  employe  of  the  city  or  of  any  other  depart- 
ment, commission,  board,  bureau,  institution  or  office  of  the  city  gov- 
ernment, and  by  becoming  a  member  of  such  commission,  no  person 
shall  forfeit  any  other  public  office  or  employment  which  he  may  hold 
at  the  time  he  becomes  a  member.      (As  adopted  March  8,  1910.) 

Sec.  4.  Must  Take  Oath  of  Office  and  Elect  President  and  Secre- 
tary:-— Before  entering  upon  the  duties  of  their  office,  all  members  shall 
qualify  by  taking  the  oath  of  office  prescribed  for  city  officials  in  the 
city  charter,  and  shall  organize  by  electing  a  president  and  secretary. 
(As  adopted  March  8,  1910.) 

Sec.  5.  Forfeiture  of  Membership;  Vacancy: — After  the  organ- 
ization of  such  commission,  any  member  except  a  state,  county  or  city 
official,  who  shall  be  absent  from  the  meetings  of  said  commission  for 
a  period  of  more  than  thirty  days,  without  being  excused  therefrom, 
shall  ipso  facto  forfeit  his  office;  and  any  vacancies  caused  either  by 
resignation,  death  or  by  reason  of  unexcused  absence,  shall  be  filled 
by  appointment  in  the  manner  provided  for  in  section  two  (2)  of  this 
resolution;  such  new  commissioner  to  be  chosen  to  represent  the  same 
body  as  that  represented  by  the  one  causing  the  vacancy.  The  failure 
of  a  city  official  to  retain  his  office  in  the  city  government  shall  be  con- 
sidered a  vacancy  on  said  commission  and  his  successor  shall  be  selected 
as  hereinbefore  provided.      (As  adopted  March  8,  1910.) 

Sec.  6.  Shall  Serve  Without  Compensation: — All  members  shall 
serve  without  compensation.      (As  adopted  March  8,  1910.) 

Sec.  7.  Suitable  Quarters  and  Engineering:  and  Clerical  Assistance 
to  Be  Furnished;  Meeting^s;  Report  Not  Later  Than  September  30,  1911: 

— There  shall  be  furnished  to  said  commission  suitable  quarters  for  the 
carrying  on  of  its  investigations,  together  with  such  engineering  and 
clerical  assistance  as  may  be  necessary,  and  the  commission  shall,  as 
soon  as  practicable  after  its  organization,  employ  one  or  more,  but  in 
no  case  to  exceed  three,  men  of  national  reputation,  recognized  as  au- 


110  CHARTER,    ARTICLE    XXV. 

thorities  in  city  planning,  to  prepare  a  comprehensive  plan  under  its 
direction  and  subject  to  its  approval  and  adoption,  embracing  in  its 
scope  the  entire  area  of  the  city,  and  such  contiguous  territory,  as  is 
comprehended  in  section  one  (1)  of  this  resolution.  The  final  plans 
shall  be  submitted  to  the  commission  for  approval,  and  shall  be  re- 
garded as  approved,  unless  rejected  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  said  com- 
missioners within  thirty  (30)  days  after  the  same  shall  have  been  filed 
with  the  commission.  The  municipal  plans  commission  shall  hold 
regular  meetings;  at  least  one  such  meeting  every  two  weeks.  Upon 
the  conclusion  of  the  sittings  of  said  commission  it  shall  submit  its 
findings  in  full  to  the  mayor  and  the  city  council  of  Seattle  in  printed 
form,  together  with  plans.  Said  report  shall  be  presented  to  the  mayor 
and  city  council  not  later  than  September  30,  1911,  and  they  shall  cause 
the  recommendations  of  the  commission  to  be  submitted  to  the  people 
at  the  next  general  or  special  city  election.     (As  adopted  March  8,  1910.) 

Sec.  8.  3Iajority  Vote  to  Adopt  Plan  Reported: — That  if  a  ma- 
jority of  the  voters  thereon  shall  favor  the  adoption  of  said  city  plan 
so  reported,  it  shall  be  adopted  and  shall  be  the  plan  to  be  followed  by 
all  city  officials  in  the  growth,  evolution  and  development  of  said  City 
of  Seattle,  until  modified,  or  amended  at  some  subsequent  election.  (As 
adopted  March  8,  1010.) 

Sec.  9.  Fund  Created;  Disposition  of  Same: — There  is  hereby 
created  a  fund  to  be  known  as  "Municipal  Plans  Commission  Fund," 
which  shall  consist  of  a  tax  levy  to  be  made  during  the  year  1910  as 
other  taxes  are  levied,  of  one-fourth  (I4)  of  a  mill  on  the  dollars,  but 
no  other  or  further  levy  or  payment  into  said  fund  shall  ever  be  made. 
The  municipal  plans  commission  shall  have  exclusive  power  to  pay 
out  moneys  from  such  fund  for  any  and  all  purposes  specified  in  sec- 
tion one  (1)  hereof,  and  shall,  on  or  before  the  10th  day  of  August  of 
the  year  1910,  prepare  and  submit  to  the  city  council  for  approval  and 
adoption,  an  estimate  of  the  amount  of  money  which  may  be  required 
for  its  purposes,  in  conformity  with  chapter  138  of  the  Laws  of  State  of 
Washington,  Session  1909.     (As  adopted  March  8, 1910.) 

Sec.  10.  Majority  Must  Approve  Touchers: — All  expenditures  on 
account  of  work  done  shall  be  made  upon  vouchers  approved  by  a  ma- 
jority vote  of  the  municipal  plans  commission  and  signed  by  its  presi- 
dent and  secretary.  Each  voucher  shall,  when  accompanied  by  a  de- 
tailed statement  of  such  expenditures,  be  certified  to  the  city  comp- 
troller, who  shall  issue  a  warrant  therefor  to  the  city  treasurer  and  the 
same  shall  be  paid  by  the  treasurer  out  of  any  money  in  the  municipal 
plans  commission  fund  not  otherwise  appropriated.  Said  commission 
may  anticipate  the  revenues  to  be  paid  into  said  fund  under  the  tax 
levy  herein  provided  for,  by  the  issuance  of  its  warrants  against  said 
fund,  to  provide  money  for  the  necessary  expenses  of  said  commission 
prior  to  the  availability  of  the  funds  to  be  raised  by  such  levy.  No 
expense  against  such  fund  shall  be  incurred  after  September  30,  1911, 
nor  in  excess  of  the  levy  provided,  and  any  surplus  remaining  in  said 
fund  after  said  date,  not  lawfully  appropriated  or  obligated  for  shall 
be  by  ordinance  transferred  into  the  general  fund.  (As  adopted  March 
8,  1910.) 


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Page 

AliSiiuloiniieiit:     Of    contracts    with    City    64 

Al>ateiii«'nt:     Of  actions  and  proceedings  pending  an  adoption  of  charter 4 

Of  nuisances,  Council  may  provide  for 26 

Absence:     Of  Councilmen,   compel    attendance   of 16 

Of  Mayor,  who  to  act  in 41 

.Absent:     Police  not  to  receive   pay  while '. 44 

Aeeeptance:     Of   nomination    95 

Vecidents   by  tire:     Council   may  make  regulations  to   prevent 25 

Accounts:     Comptroller  to   keep    65 

Finance  Committee  to  investigate   17 

Superintendent  of  Lighting  to  keep   49 

Superintendent   of  Waterworks   to   keep   49 

Treasurer    to    keep 66 

What  to  be  kept  in  General  Fund 70 

Acquisitions  of  francliises  by  City   34 

Actions:     For  claims   for  damages,  when  begun   37-38 

For  recovery  for  loss  of  property  taken  by  police 44 

For  recovery  of  cost  of  completing  contract 65 

For  recovery  of  money  withheld  by  officers 67 

For  recovery  of  penalty  for  accepting  passes 102 

In  name  of  City  may  be  brought,  for  what  4 

Not  abated  by  adoption  of  charter  4 

Administrators:     May  sign  petitions  for  local   improvements 52-53 

Advisory  Board:     Members  and  duties  of 42 

AitidJMits:     Comptroller  and  deputies  may  take 66 

Agents  of  City:     To  pay  money  belonging  to  City  Treasurer;  penalty  for  failure 66 

Agreement:     For  City  printing,  what  to  contain 38 

Agreements:     Mayor  to  enforce 41 

Air:     Discharge  of  into  sewers  prohibited,  when 62 

Alleys:     Board  of  Public   Works   to  control 46 

Council   may  order   improvement   of 53 

No    exclusive    franchise    in 36 

Saloon   entrance    from,    not   allowed 29 

AlloAvance   for  nnautliorized   claims:     Liability   for 106 

Alknvances  due  t(»  contractors:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  certify 46 

Amendments   to   charter 102-103 

Amendment  of  ordinances:     Council  has  power  of 33 

Granting    franchises    34 

How    made 18 

Anchorage:     Council  may  regulate 25 

Animals:     Council  may  prevent  running  at  large  of 33 

Annexed  territory:    Added  to  existing  wards;  made  a  new  ward 11 

Appeal    from    assessments 60-61 

Appeals:     Appointment  and  duties  of  Board  of 51-52 

From  Superintendent  of  Buildings 50-51 

Appointive  Offices :     Vacancies  how  filled .....100-101 

Api>ointive  officers :     List  of 99 

Terms  of  office  of 100 

Appointment  and  Removal:     Of  Assistants  Corporation  Counsel 81-82 

Of  Board    of    Appeals 51 

Of  Chairman  Board  of  Public  Works 45 

Of  Chief  of  Fire  Department 75 

Of  Chief   of   Police 43 

Of  City    Attorney    82 

Of  City    Engineer    47 

Of  Civil   Service  Commission 82 

Of  Commissioner   of   Health 71 

Of  Election  Officers  96 

Of  Health   Officer    71 

Of  Library  Board 81 

Of  officers.  Council  may  provide  for 19 

Of  officers  by  Mayor 40 


112  INDEX    TO    CITY    CHARTER 

Appointment  and  Renioral:     (Continued)  Page 

Of  Park  Commissioners   ., 77-78 

Of  Police   officers    40 

Of  Port  Warden   77 

Of  Quarantine    officers 73 

Of  Sanitary    Inspector 73 

Of  Superintendent    of   Buildings 48 

Of  Superintendent    of   Lighting 50 

Of  Superintendent   of  Waterworks 50 

Of  Superintendent  of  Public  Utilities 48 

Of  Superintendent  of  Streets  and  Sewers 49 

Power  of.  gives  power  to  remove 98 

Appointments:     Civil  Service 84-85 

Ai>propriations:     For  salaries  and  current  expenses,  ordinances  for  may  pass,  when  18 

In  aid  of  persons  and  corporations 36 

Statements  of,  to  be  published 39 

To  pay  claim  for  damages,  what  must  precede 37-38 

Approval:     Of  official  bonds 91 

Of  plats,  publication  of  ordinance  for 19 

Arbitration:     Of  differences  as  to  common  user 36 

Arrests:     Chief  of  Police  to  keep  record  of 44 

For  violation  of  ordinances.  Council  may  provide  for 32 

How    made 44 

Asiatic  oliolera:     Duties  of  Health  Officer  with  reference  to 72 

Asphalt  plants:     Acquiring,  opening  and  operating 22 

Assessments:     Council  may  provide  for  special 22 

For  cleaning  and  draining  private  property 63 

For  cost  of  planting  shade  trees 33 

Officers  not  to  pay  political 88 

Pending,    how   completed 4 

Assessments  for  local  improvements :    Appeals  from 60-61 

Collection  of  unpaid  warrants  for 60 

Council  may  \evy  and  collect 52 

Council  may  provide  for  making 22 

Limit  of  53 

Modes  of  payment 55-56-57 

On  City  property,  how  paid 55 

Publication  of  notice  of 56-57 

Assessments  for  sewer  construction:    How  made 54 

Assessment  of  taxes:     Council  may  provide  for 19-20 

Assessment  sales :     Public?tion  of 39 

Assignment:    Of  contracts  with  City 64 

Assistant  Corporation  Counsel:     An  appointive  officer 82 

Appointment    and    duties "  82 

Not  under  Civil  Service 85 

Assistants  of  Treasurer:     To  give  bonds 66-67 

Attorney:     Anpointment  and  duties  of  City 82 

Auditinu:  Committee:     Members,  powers,  duties,  meetings,  quorum 68-69 

To  apnrove  official  bonds 90-91 

Baffsraisre:     Subject  to  quarantine,  when 73-74 

Bail:     Police  officers  not  to  become 44 

Ballot:     Voting  at  election  by 96-97 

For    Primary    Election 91 

Official     92-93 

Printing  names  of  candidates  on  sample 93 

Basements:      Saloons    in 30 

Bequests:     City  may  receive 3 

Bequests  and  devises:     To  library  fund 80 

To    park    fund '. 77 

Bids:     For  City  printing 38-39 

For  local  improvement  contracts,  how  made 57-58 

For  street    railway    franchises 35 

For  sui)plies  to  be  purchased,  how  made 57-58 

Bi-ennial  statement  of  revenue  and  expense:    Publication  of 39 

Bills:     Against  City,  how  presented  and  audited 69 

Board  of  Public  Works     to  certify .' 46 

Bills  of  Council:     Granting  franchises... 18 

Birtlis:     Reports  and  records  of 72 


INDEX    TO    CITY    CHARTER  -  113 

Page 

iJlock:     Number  of  saloons  in 30 

Board,  Advisorj  :     I\Iembeis  and  duties  of.^ 42 

Board  of  Appeals:     Membership,  appointment  and  term  of  office 51 

Board,  Library:     Appointment,  power  and  duties  of 81 

Board  of  Equalization:     Council  to  sit  as 55 

Board  of  Park  Conimissidners:     Appointment,  powers  and  duties  of 77-78 

Board  of  PubUc  Works:     Appointment  and  duties  of  Secretary  of 45 

Chairman  of,  member  of  Advisory  Board 42 

Chairman  to  attend  Council  meetings;  right  to  speak 45 

How  to  let  local  improvement  contracts  or  contracts  for  supplies 57 

May  complete  contracts,   when 65 

May   construct   general    sewerage   system 63 

Mayor  to  appoint  Chairman   of  annually 45 

Meetings    of 45 

Members    of    45-47 

Powers  and'  duties  of 45-46 

Quorum    of 45 

Record  of  proceedings  of 45 

To  Issue  permits  for  construction  under  franchises 61-62 

To  issue  permits  to  connect  with  public  sewer 62 

To  make    reassessment    rolls 59 

Board  of  Examiners  of  Engineers  in  charge  of  steam  boilers:     Salaries  and  com- 
pensation   of    members 105 

Boats:     Council  may  license  and  regulate  use  of  in  harbor 25 

Boilers:     Council   may   regulate 33 

Inspection  and  licensing  of - 104-105 

Boiler  Inspector:     An  appointive  officer 104 

Bond:     for  Liquor  License,  Amount  of 32 

Of  Chief  of  Police,  conditions  of 91 

Liability    on    .— 44 

Of  Comptroller,  Mayor  to  keep... .:.... 41 

On  appeal  from  assessments 61 

To  accompany  contract  for  City  printing 38-39 

Bonds:     Amount  of  official 90-91 

Approval    of 41 

Clerk  to  have  custody  of.  except  his  own 42 

Contractors  may  be  required  to  give  new.  when 64-65 

Contractors    with   City    required   to   give;    conditions;     sureties;     justification: 

approval     63-64 

Council  may  authorize  issue  of  negotiable;  limit  of;  term  of 20-21 

Finance  Committee  to  examine  and  report  on 17 

For  local  improvements,  how  issued  and  sold 56-57 

^layor  may  require,  new,  when 17 

Official,   who   to   give 90-91 

Refunding    37 

Statement  of  issue  to  be  published 37 

To  accompany  bid  for  local  improvement  contract  or  for  supplies 57 

Treasurer  to  require  from  clerks  and  assistants 66-67 

Bond  Fund:     Council  shall  establish  and  continue 70 

Bonded  indebtedness:   How  created;  payment  of  interest  on 37 

Books:    All  open  to  public  inspection .—........ 106 

Certified  copies  of 42 

Comptroller  to  keep  set  of 65 

Of  Treasurer  open  for  public  inspection 68 

Treasurer  to  deliver  to  successor 67 

Bonlevards:    Establishment  and  control  of  park 79 

Boundaries:     Change  of  ward  not  to  abolish  office 11 

Council  may  operate  quarries  outside  of 22 

Council  may  regulate  cemeteries  and  offensive  occupations  within  two  miles 

of  City  24 

Council  may  regulate  streams  within  five  miles  of  City 26 

Establishment  of  parks  and  drives  adjacent  to  City 78 

Of  City  defined 4-5-6 

Of  precincts,  ordinances  fixing  11 

Of  saloon  districts  26-27-28-29 

Of  wards  defined  6-7-8-9-10 

Sewerage  system  may  extend  outside  of  City -     63 


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Bridges:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  control 46 

City  Engineer  to  superintend 47 

Council  may  construct,  repair  and  regulate 22 

Buildings:     Health  Officers  may  condemn  unsanitary 71 

Board  of  Public  Works  to  control  public 46 

Chief  of  Fire  Department  to  inspect  and  report 76 

Superintendent  of  Buildings  to  be  inspector  of 50-51 

Council  may  regulate  construction  of 25-26 

Council  may  regulate  offensive  occupations  in 24 

Council  may  regulate  plumbing  in 73 

Council  may  require  suitable  exits  from 26 

Council  may  require  owners  to  drain 63 

Superintendent  of;  appointment,  powers  and  duties 50-51 

Title  to  public 3 

Vacation  of  unsanitary 71 

Bulkheads:    Council  may  order  construction  and  repair  of .' 52 

Bureaus:    Council  may  establish,  abrogate  and  provide  for  government  of 33 

Burials:     Council  may  regulate 24 

Permit  for  required 74 

Canals:    Council  may  provide  for  construction,  regulation  and  cleaning  of 26 

Canvass  of  election  returns 97 

Carfroes:     Council  may  regulate  landing  of. 25 

Cemetery:     Council  shall  establish  public 107 

Cemeteries:     Council  may  establish,  regulate,  remove  and  prohibit 24 

Removal  of  bodies  from,  permit  for  required 74 

Certificates:     For  payments  from  contingent  fund 67 

Of  births  and  deaths 72 

Of  election.  Clerk  to  make 97 

Individual    94 

Certitied  copies:    Of  books  and  records.  Clerk  to  furnish 42 

Officers  to  furnish 106 

Cess  Pools:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  regulate 62 

Council  may  require  cleaning  and  draining  of 63 

Chairman:    Of  Board  of  Public  Works  member  of  Advisory  Board 42 

Of  Finance  Committee  to  be  member  of  Auditing  Committee 68 

Charities:    Council  may  grant  free  water  to 22 

Charter:    Amendments  to  102-103 

Provisions  of  former  continued 4 

Check:    To  accompany  bids  for  City  printing 38 

To  accomi)any  bids  for  local  improvement  contracts  and  for  supplies 57 

To  accompany  bid  for  street  railway  franchises 35 

Chief  Examiner  of  Civil  Service:     Secretary  of  Commission 86 

Chief  of  Fire  Department:     An  appointive  officer 99 

Appointment  and   duties  of 75-76 

On  Removal  takes  former  position  in  classified  service 75 

Chief  of  Police:    An  appointive  officer 99 

Appointment,  removal  and  duties  of 43 

Liable  for  property  taken  from  any  person 44 

On  removal,  takes  former  position  in  classified  service 43 

To  execute  orders  of  Mayor,  when 40 

City :     General  powers  of 3 

Cities:     Council  shall  have  power  conferred  by  law  upon 33 

Citj  Attorney:     Appointment  and  duties  of 82 

City  Engineer:    An  appointive  officer! 99 

Appointment,  qualifications,  duties  and  term  of  office  of 47-48 

Not  under  Civil   Service 85 

City  Government:     Departments  of _ 11-12 

City  official  newspaper:     How  designated 38 

City  of  Seattle:    A  body  politic  and  corporate;  name  of 3 

Civil  Service:    Appointment  of  firemen  under 75 

Appointment  of  police  under 43 

Appointments  under 84 

Comptroller's  duties  under 66 

Employes  of  Engineer's,  Street,  Lighting  and  Waterworks  Departments  under 

48-49-50 

Employes  of  Health  Department  under 71 

Examination 83 

Library    employes    under 81 


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Civil  Service:     (Continued)  Page 

Medical  assistants  and  nurses  not  under 71 

Officers  not  under , 85 

Park  employes  under 80 

Pay  during  disability  under 89 

Probation  appointments  and  promotions  under 84 

Regulations,  penalties  for  violations  of 89 

Reinstatments  and  removals  under 84 

Retirement  from  on  account  of  age 89 

Vacations  of  employes  under 90 

What  to  constitute  classified 82-83 

Civil  Service  Commission:    Appointment,  term,  duties  and  powers 82 

To  appoint  board  of  examiners  of  engineers 104 

Claims:    Against  City,  how  presented  and  audited 69 

Board  of  Public  Works  to  certify 46 

Comptroller  to  require  verification  of 69 

For  damages,  how  and  when  presented 37 

Pending  at  adoption  of  charter 4 

Must  not  be  allowed  if  invalid  or  barred 37 

Classified  Civil  Service:     What  to  constitute 82-83 

Cleaning:  of  Streets:    Board  of  Public  Works  to  superintend 46 

Clerical  Department  42 

Clerk:     Bonds  to  be  filed  with 42 

Comptroller  to  be  ex-officio 42 

Powers  and  duties  of 42 

To  be  Clerk  of  Park  Board 80 

To  check  petition  for  recall  election  with  registration 98 

To  post  and  publish  notice  of  elections 97 

To  publish  and  post  notice  of  questions  submitted  to  voters 97 

To  publish  proposed  amendments  to  charter , 103 

Clerks  of  Treasurer:    Not  under  civil  service 85 

To  give  bonds 66-67 

Collection:    Of  assessments  for  draining  and  cleaning  private  property 63 

Of  "Immediate  Payment"  assessments  and  "Payment  by  Bonds"  assessments.... 

55-56-57 

Combustibles :     Council  may  regulate 25 

Commerce:    Council  may  extend  and  improve  streets  over  tide  lands  in  the  in.,erest 

of :.32-33 

Commissioner  of  Health:     Appointment,  salary,  term  of  office,  duties  and  powers...     71 
Committee,  Auditing:     (See  Auditing  Committee.) 

Committee,  Finance:    Appointment,  powers  and  duties 17 

Committees:     Council  may  create  and  use:  powers  of 16 

Common  seal:    City  may  have,  use  and  alter 3 

Common  use:     Franchises  subject  to 34 

Communications:     Between  departments 12 

To  Council  by  Mayor 41 

Compensation:     Council  may  provide  for  officer's 33 

Park  Commissioners  to  receive  no 78 

Police  not  to  receive  other  than  salary 44 

Comptroller:    An  elective  officer 99 

Appointments  to  be  filed  with 106 

Chief  Clerk  of,  not  under  civil  service 85 

Duties  of  65-66 

Duties  as  to  initiative  and  referendum  petitions 12-13 

Salary  of 90 

Ex-officio  City  Clerk 42 

Finance  Committee  to  examine  books  of,  when 17 

Mayor  to  keep  bond  of 41 

Member  of  Advisory  Board 42 

Member  of  Auditing  Committee '. 68-69 

To  approve  contractor's  bond 64 

To  approve  bond  of  City  printing 38 

To  countersign  and  register  warrants 66 

To  make  annual  estimate  of  expense  and  revenues 68 

Concessions  in  parks:    Board  may  grant 78 

Condemnation:    Of  property  for  corporate  uses 20 

Of  property  for  sewers  62 

Of  street  railways  22-23 

Of  unsanitary  buildings  ,. 71 


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ronditions  of  oftioial  bonds 90-91 

Conduits:     Council  may  regulate 33 

Coutirniation:     Of  loan  authorized  by  bond  election 37 

Of  officers  appointed  by  Mayor ;..... 40 

Connections  with  pultlic  sewers:     Regulation  of 62 

Constnu'tion  under  franchise:     Permit  for  required....... 61-62 

Contagious  diseases:     Council  maj'  provide  for  removal  of  persons  afflicted  with...     26 

Regulations   concerning   72 

Contingent  fund  67 

Contract:     For  City  printing,  what  to  contain 38 

For  water  must  be  submitted  to  vote  of  people 22 

Contracts:     Clerk  to  have  custody  of 42 

Existing,  to   remain   valid 4 

For  lighting,  enforcement  of  50 

For  lighting,   term   of 61 

Contracts  for  local  improvements:    How  let;  terms  of 57-58 

Letting  of.  not  to  prevent  reassessment 60 

Subletting    ., 52 

Contracts  with  City:    Assignment  of , : 64 

Bond  for  required;   conditions;   sureties 63-64 

Eight  hours  a  day's  work  on 105 

;\Iayor  to  enforce 41 

Officers  not  to  be  interested  in 102 

Contractors:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  certify  claims  due  to 46 

Bonds  of,  conditions  and  approval  of 64 

Contracts   with   defaulting,   prohibited,  when 65 

Mayor  to  approve  bonds  of 41 

Contributions:     Regulations  concerning  political 87-88 

Copies:     Clerk  to  certify 42 

Officers  to  certify 106 

Corner:    Saloons  within  thirty  feet  of  street 30 

Corporation   Counsel:     An  elective  officer 99 

^lember  of  Advisory  Board 42 

Qualifications  and  duties 82 

Salary  of  ., 90 

To  approve  bonds,  for  city  printing :,.■. 39 

To  bring  action  to  recover  cost  of  completing  contracts 65 

Council:     Appointment  of  officers  with  consent  of 40 

Auditing  Committee  to  report  claims  to 69 

Board  of  Appeals  to  be  confirmed  by 51 

City  Engineer  to  be  confirmed  by 47 

Civil    Service   Commission   to    report   to 86 

Clerk  to  keep  record  of  proceedings  of '. 42 

Commissioner  of  Health  to  be  confirmed  by • 71 

Comptroller  to  report  to,  when : 65-66 

Finance  Committee  to  report  to 17 

Library  Board,  confirmation  bj' 81 

May  amend,  modify  or  repeal  ordinances 33 

May  amend,  forfeit  or  repeal  franchises 34 

May  compel  attendance  of  members ! 16 

May  compel  attendance   of  witnesses 17 

May  create  and  use  committees 16-17 

May  create  new  ward  of  annexed  territory  and  re-district  wards 11 

May  divide  wards  into  precincts,  how  and  when 11 

May  enact  or  reject  but  not  amend  initiative  bills 13 

I\Iay  extend,  establish  or  vacate  streets  over  tide  or  shore  lands .'. 104 

May  order   local    improvements ....■- 52-58 

May  pass  emergency  bills  by  three-fourths  vote '. 14 

May  propose  amendments  to  Charter '.. 102-103 

]\Iay  remove  Chief  of  Police,  when 43 

May  suspend  or  remove  members 101 

Mayor,  removal  of  by 41-42 

]\Iembers,  number  of i— .-■- 15 

Meetings  of.  when  to  be  held 1 : 17 

President  of,  election   and   removal   of 16  T 

May  call  meetings,  when 18 

^Member  of  Advisory  Board 42 


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Council:     (Continued)  Page 

Member  of  Auditing  Committee 68-69 

When  to  act  as  ;\Iayor 41 

Powers    and    duties 15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26 

Quorum    of - ■;..-- 16 

Salary  of  ; 15 

Siiall  canvass  returns  and  declare  results  of  election 97 

Shall  control  harbor  and  water  front 76 

Shall    decide   election    contests 97 

Shall  keeiJ  journal  of  proceedings 16 

Shall  sit  as  Board  of  Equalization  55 

Shall  try  officers  and  members  suspended loi 

Two   members   may   demand   vote   by   yeas   and   nays 16 

Council   Bills :     Procedure 18-19 

Councilmeu:     How  expelled  for  disorderly  behavior  16 

Not  excluded  from  office  by  change  of  ward  boundaries  11 

Not  to  hold  other  office,  be  interested  in  contracts  or  accept  passes 102 

Number   of    15 

Qualifications    of    16 

Suspension  and  removal  of;   election  of  successor  101 

Three   may  call   meeting,   when    18 

When   elected;    terms   of  office 15,98 

Cremations :     Record   of 72 

Dama>?es:     Claims  for,  how  and  when  presented  37-38 

Claims  for  pending  at  adoption  of  Charter 4 

For  change  of  grade.  Council  may  provide  for  21 

Payment  for  use  of  property  for  sewers 63 

Deatlis:     Reports  and   records   of 72 

Debts:     Council  not  to  create  except  by  ordinance 37 

Statement  to  be  published  39 

Deeds:     Clerk  to  have  custody  of  '. 42 

Defalcation  in  office:     Finance  Committee  to  report  to  Mayor 17 

Demands:     Against  City,  how  presented  and  audited 69 

Comptroller  to  keep  a  record  of 65 

^lust  not  be  allowed  if  invalid  or  barred 37 

Departments  of  City  Government:     Number  of  „....-...„. 11-12 

Civil  Service  82 

Clerical    42 

Executive 40 

Finance 65 

Fire , 75 

Harbor    76 

Law    [ 81 

Legislative     12 

Library    .- 80 

Park 77 

Police 42 

Public  Works 45 

Sanitation    71 

Deputies:     Com|)troller  may  appoint  66 

Detective  oflicers:    Council  may  fix  number  of 42-43 

Devises:     City  may  receive  — 3 

To  Library  Fund 80 

To  Park  Fund  : : 77 

Diphtheria:     Report  of  required  ...:... 72 

Disahility:     Civil  Service  appointees  to  receive  pay  while  under 89 

Of  ]\Iayor,  President  of  Council  to  act  during 41 

Diseases:     Council  may  provide  for  removal  of  person  afflicted  with  contagious 26 

Regulations  concerning  72-73 

Disorderly  persons  andconduct:    Council  may  restrain  and  punish... 32 

Disinterment:     Permit  for  required  74 

Districts:     Local  Improvement  54-55 

Quarantine    73 

Sewer  and  drainage  54 

Saloon    , ...26-27-28 

Ditclies:    Council  may  require  cleaning  and  drainage  of ..; 63 

Docliage:     Council  may  fix  rates  of  25 


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Docks:    Council  may  provide  for  and  regulate  25 

Council  may  regulate  charges  on  76 

Dogs:    Council  may  regulate  keeping  of 33 

Draiuage:    Of  ponds,  Council  may  provide  for 26 

Of  private  property,  Council  shall  require  63 

Districts,  Council  may  establish,  what  to  contain 54 

Eigbt  Hours:    To  constitute  a  day's  work  , 105 

Election:     For  granting  street  railway  franchises   34-35 

For  issue  of  bonds   37 

For   recall    of   officers    98-99 

Of  Councilmen  15 

Of  officers  by  Council  when  Mayor  fails  to  nominate  40 

General  91 

Of  President  of  Council  16 

On  initiative  and  referendum  bills 13-14 

For  acquisition  and  operation  of  street  railways  by  City 22 

For  contract  for  water  or  use  of  water  works 22 

Special    91 

For  purchase  of  lighting  plant  22 

Primary    91 

Submission  of  street  railway  franchises  to  34 

Elections:     Council  may  provide  for  19-91 

Notice  of  91 

Election  contests:    How  decided  97 

Election  officers:     Appointment  of  96 

Elective  officers:     List  of  1 99 

May  be  recalled,  how 98 

Terms  of  office  of  100 

Elective  offices:     Vacancies,  how  filled  100 

Electric  franchises:    City  may  acquire  22 

Electric  light:     Council  may  provide  for 22 

Permit  for  construction  of  lines  61 

Electrical  appliances:     Council  may  regulate  22 

Electricity:     Council  may  regulate  use  of  in  streets  22 

Emersrencj  :     Appointments  in  Classified  Civil  Service 84-85 

Permits  for  work  in  case  of  61 

Policemen,  Mayor  may  appoint,  how 42-43 

Eminent  Domain:     Council  may  exercise  right  of 20 

Council  may  provide  for  acquiring  street  railways  by  right  of 22 

Wharves,  docks,  etc.,  by  right  of 25 

Property  for  sewers  may  be  acquired  by  right  of 62 

Employes:     Classification  of  82-83 

Comptroller  to  post  list  of  66 

Not  to  receive  or  solicit  political  contributions 87 

Employment  office:     Public  87 

Enacting  clause:     Of  ordinances,  form  of  18 

Engineers:     Examination  and  license  of  105 

Entrance:     From  alley  to  saloons  29 

Examinations  for  Civil  Service ^. „ 83-84 

Examiners:    Board  of  for  engineers  105 

Civil  Service  83 

Exclnsive  franchises :     Prohibited  36 

Executive  Department  40 

Execntors:     May  sign  petition  for  local  improvements 53 

Expenditures:     Biennial  statement  of  to  be  published  39 

Comptroller  to  make  estimate  of  65-66 

Ordinance  for  must  specify  amount  and  object  37 

Treasurer  to  keep  account  of 66 

Expense  of  puhlication:     Of  ordinances  approving  or  vacating  plats  and  granting 

franchises 19 

Explosives:     Council  may  regulate  25 

Express  charges:     To  be  paid  from  contingent  fund 67 

Expulsion:     Of  members  of  Council  16 

Extension:     Of  street  railway  franchise,  how  granted  33-34 

Of  streets  over  tide  land  ^ 32-33 


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Fees:     For  certified  copies  of  books  and  records..., 106 

For  certifying,  Clerk  to  charge  42 

For  engineer's  license.  Council  to  fix 105 

For  inspection  of  boilers.  Council  to  fix 105 

For  licenses  to  be  paid  to  Treasurer  66 

Of  Clerk  on  appeals  from  assessments  61 

Police  not  to  receive  44 

Fences:     Council  may  regulate  partition  25 

Finance:     Department  of  65 

Finances:     Comptroller's  books  to  show  condition  of  City's 65-66 

Council  to  control 20 

Finance  Committee:     Appointment,  powers  and  duties  of  17 

Fines:     Comptroller  to  estimate  amount  of.  for  ensuing  year 68 

Library  Fund  to  receive  10  per  cent,  of 80 

Park  Fund  to  receive  10  per  cent,  of  77 

Fire  Department 75 

Council  may  establish  25 

Limit  of  taxation  for  19-20 

Fire  limits:     Council  may  establish  and  regulate  buildings  within 25 

Fire  worlis:    Council  may  regulate  25 

Fires:     Council  may  provide  for  prevention  and  extinguishment  of 25 

Firemen:     Appointment  of  under  Civil  Service  rules 75 

Fiscal  Year:     Comptroller  to  estimate  expenses  for  ensuing  68 

Food  prodncts:     Council  may  regulate  sale  of 23-24 

Forfeitnre:     For  withholding  money  belonging  to  City 67 

Franchises  subject  to,  when  34 

Of  checks  accompanying  local  improvement  bids 57-58 

Of  checks  with  bids  for  City  printing  39 

Of  franchise  for  construction  without  permit  62 

Of  office  for  accepting  passes  102 

Franchises:     Bills  for,  when  to  pass;  publication  of 19 

Not  extended  until  within  three  years  of  expiration 34 

Not  to  be  exclusive 34 

Ordinance  granting,  how  published 19 

Permit  for  construction  under  required  61-62 

Street  railway,  how  granted   34 

Subject  to  common  use.  amendment,  repeal  and  forfeiture  of 34 

Superintendent  of  Public  Utilities  to  enforce  provisions  of 48 

Wharf,  how  granted;    forfeiture  of  36 

Frands:     In  Civil   Service  examinations,  appointments  and  promotions 87 

Free  Water:     Council  may  grant  to  charities  22 

Freight  charges:     To  be  paid  from  contingent  fund  67 

Fund:     Cemetery  107 

Comptroller  to  report  to  Council  balance  in  each 66-68 

Contingent  67 

General 70 

Interest    70 

Library 70-80 

Park  70-77 

Water    69 

Fnnds:     Council  may  establish  70 

For  payment  of  bonds  and  interest  thereon  37 

Local   improvement  surplus   58 

Transfers  of,  certain  prohibited  70 

Funding  bonds:     Council  may  authorize  issue  of 20 

Garbage:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  superintend  removal  of  from  streets 46 

Gas:     Discharge  of  into  sewers  prohibited,  when 62 

Franchises,  City  may  acquire  34 

Pipes,  Board  of  Public  Works  to  regulate  laying  of 46 

Works,  Council  may  provide  for  22 

General  elections:    When  held  91 

Initiative  and  referendum  bill  to  be  submitted  at 14 

Grade  of  Streets:    Council  may  change 21 

Grading:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  superintend 46 

Grounds:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  manage  public  •.....; 46 

Guardians:     May  sign  petition  for  local  improvements 53 

Gutters:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  superintendent 46 


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Halls:     Council  may  require  suitable  exits  in  public  26 

Harbor:     Council  may  control ."; 76 

Harbor  Department: 76 

Healtli:    Appointment  and  duties  of  Commissioner  of  71 

Council  may  regulate  trades  and  occupations  deleterious  to  public 24 

Health  Department:  71 

Employes  of  under  Civil  Service  71 

Health  Officer:     An  appointive  officer 99 

Appointment   and    removal   of 71 

Not  under  Civil  Service 85 

Powers  and  duties  of 71 

Hearinsrs:     On  assessment  rolls  55 

Highways:    No  exclusive  franchise  in 36 

Selection  as  park  boulevards ; 79 

Holidays:     No  public  work  on  legal  61 

Offices  not  to  be  open  on 106 

Hospitals:     Council  may  establish  and  regulate  24 

Establishment  and  maintenance  of  72 

Hotel  liquor  licenses  .-. 29 

Hours:     Of  Labor 61,  105 

Offices  to  be  open  106 

"Immediate  Payment:"    Mode  of  for  local  improvements 55 

Imjieaohment:     Of  :\layor  41 

Of  officers  for  accepting  passes 102 

Impounding  animals:     Council  may  provide  for 33 

Improvement:     Of  streets,  Board  of  Public  Works  to  superintend 46 

Improvements:     Council  may  provide  for  local  21 

Local,   how  made 52 

Incapacity  of  Mayor:    Who  to  act  in  case  of  41 

Indel)tedness:     Limit  of  bonded  20 

Indigent  families:     Maintenance  of  during  quarantine  74 

Infectious  diseases:     Council  may  provide  for  removal  of  persons  afflicted  with 26 

Regulations  concerning  72 

Initiative:     Power  of  reserved  by  people  14 

Initiative  and  referendum:    Franchises  subject  to  amendment,  forfeiture  or  repeal  by  34 

Injury:     Claims  for  damages  for  37 

Council  may  protect  persons  from,  by  railroads  21 

Inspection  of  boilers 104 

Inspection  of  weights  and  measures — : -. 23-24 

Inspector:     Building,  duties  of 50 

Sanitary,  Market.  Sewer,  Plumbing,  Water,  Steam  and  Gas,  appointment,  pow- 
ers and  duties  of , 73 

Inspectors  of  election:    Appointment  of  96 

Instruments:     Clerk  to  attest  public ; 42 

Interest:     Comptroller  to  report  amount  required  for  65 

On  bonds  must  be  provided  for  before  issue 37 

On  delinquent  "Immediate  Payment"  assessments 56-57 

On  refunded  bonds  37 

On  warrants,  to  cease  fifteen  days  after  call 67 

Interest  Fund:     Council  shall  establish  and  continue  70 

Transfers  from  prohibited  70 

Interment:     Permit  for  required  74 

Record  of  74 

Intoxicating  liquors:     Council  may  regulate  traffic  in  26-31 

Not  to  be  sold  in  parks  78 

Use  of  by  Civil  Service  employes  90 

Investigations:    By  Civil  Service  Commissioners 86 

Isolation  hospitals:     Council  may  establish  and  regulate  same 24 

Jail:     Chief  of  Police,  keeper  of  City  43-44 

Jails:    Council  may  establish  and  regulate  23 

Jonrnal  of  proceedings:    Auditing  Committee  shall  keep  69 

Council   shall   keep   16 

Mayor's  objections  to  bills  to  be  entered  in : 19 

Record  of  vote  on  ordinances  to  be  entered  in 19 

Judges  of  election:     Appointment  of  96 

Judgment:     On  a|)peal  from  assessments  60 

Justice  of  the  Peace:    To  issue  process  to  the  Chief  of  Police 43 


INDEX  TO  CITY  CHARTER  121 

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Justificatiou:     Of  sureties  ou  contractors'  bonds 64 

Juvenile  oft'euders:     Council  may  provide  schools  for 24 

Labor:     Contracts  for  public  improvements  to  provide  for  payment  for 58 

Contractor's  bond  to  secure  payment  of  63 

Hours   of 61,105 

Labor  ('omiinssioiier:     Powers  and  duties  of  86 

Landing  of  vessels :     Council  may  regulate  76 

Landing!'  places:     Council  may  provide  for  and  regulate  public 25 

Law  Department  81 

Legal  holidays:    No  public  work  on 61 

Offices  not  to  open  on 106 

Legislative  department 12 

Library  Board:     Appointment,  term,  powers  and  duties 81 

Library  Commissioners:     Not  under  Civil  Service  , ,i. 81 

Librarv  Department - 80 

Library  Fnnd  70 

Transfer  from  prohibited  70 

What  to  consist  of 80 

Librarian:     Appointive  officer  -..- 99 

Election,  removal  and  powers  81 

License:     Amount  of  for  liquor  traffic  31 

For  Steam  boilers,  of  engineers  105 

Licenses:    Comptroller  to  estimate  revenue  from  for  ensuing  year 68 

Comptroller  to  issue,  when 65 

Council  may  provide  for  26 

For  boats  - 26 

For  liquor  traffic  26-31 

License  fees:     Library  Fund  to  receive  10  per  cent,  of - - 80 

Park  fund  to  receive  10  per  cent,  of  77 

Lien:     For  assessment  for  local  improvements 52 

For  labor  and  material  on  local  improvements 58 

Of  assessment  for  cleaning  and  draining  private  property — 63 

Of  "Immediate  Payment"  assessments  55-56 

Of  "Payment  by  Bond"  assessments 56-57 

Light  and  v>ater  bills:     Treasurer  to  collect  50 

Liglits,  Lighting:     Contract,  term  of  61 

Enforcement  of  contracts  for  50 

Superintendent  of  50 

Lighting  Department:     Limit  of  taxation  for 19-20 

Lighting  Plant:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  control 1 47 

Election  for  purchase  of,  required 22 

Limits:  ■  City  defined  4 

Cemeteries  and  offensive  occupations  within  two  miles  of  City 24 

Council  may  regulate  streams  within  five  miles  of  City 26 

Of  saloon  districts  26-27-28 

Parks  outside  of  City  78 

Liquor  traffic:     Council  may  regulate 26-31 

Local  Improvements:     Bonds  for 56-57 

Contracts  for,  how  let  57 

How  made 52 

Local  Tmpnnement  Districts:    Establishment  of;  what  to  contain;  subdivisions  of...     54 

Maps:     City  Engineer  to  make  47 

^Lirkets:     Council  may  establish  and  regulate  23 

>Iarket  Inspector:     Sanitary  Inspector  to  be  73 

Mayor:    Absence  or  incapacity  of.  President  of  Council  to  act 41 

An  elective  officer  99 

Head  of  Executive  Department  12 

May  appoint  emergency  policeman   43 

May  call  special  meetings  of  Council  18 

May  grant  permit  for  work  in  case  of  emergency 61 

May  remove  Chief  of  Police 43 

May  remove  Civil  Service  Commissioners  82 

May  require  new  bonds,  when  17 

May  suspend  and  remove  officers 101 

Member  of  Auditing  Committee  68 

Powers  and  duties  of  40 

Power  to  appoint  gives  power  to  remove 101 


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President  of  Advisorj^  Board;  may  call  meetings 42 

Qualifications  of  40 

Removal  from  office  of : 41 

Salary  of 90 

Major  siud  C(»uncil:     Legislative  power  In,  subject  to  initiative  and  referendum 12 

Medical  assistants:     Not  under  Civil  Service 71 

Meetings:     Of  Advisory  Board 42 

Of  Auditing  Committee  68 

Of  Board  of  Appeals 52 

Of  Board  of  Public  Works 45 

Of  Council,  regular,  special  17-18 

Messages:     To  Council  by  :\Iayor  40 

Meter  rents:     Treasurer  to  collect  50 

Misdemeanors:     In  ofliice,  Finance  Committee  to  report  to  Mayor 17 

Mortgage:    Of  property  purchased  for  parks 79 

Real  and  personal  property.  City  may  3 

Motion  to  reconsider:    When  to  be  acted  on  18 

Municipal  Plans  Commission:     How  to  be  chosen  108 

Duties  of 108 

To  consist  of  twenty-one  members  108 

How  constituted  108 

I\Iayor    to    appoint    certain    108 

Members  may  hold  other  office  109 

Shall  take  oath  of  office  109 

Organization  of  109 

To  serve  without  compensation   109 

Office   quarters  to  be   furnished ._. 109 

To  employ  three  experts  !... 109-110 

Findings  to  be  submitted  to  :Mayor  and  City  Council  not  later  than  September 

30,  1911  110 

Findings  to  be  submitted  to  a  vote  of  the  people 110 

Fund   created    110 

Levy  of  one-fourth  mill  to  be  made  110 

Expenditures  for  work  to  be  approved  by  majority 110 

Revenue  may  be  anticipated  110 

Regular  meetings  to  be  held  110 

Aames :     On   ballot   96 

Newspaper:     City  official,  how  designated  38 

Night:     Xo  public  work  at  61 

Nominee:     For   office    96 

Nomination:    For  office 91 

Notice:     Of  appeal  from  assessment  60-61 

Of  application  for  street  railway  franchises  34 

Of  assessment,  "Immediate   Payment"   and  "Bonds" 55-56-57 

Of  Civil  Service  Examinations  84 

Of  election,  City  Comptroller  to  publish  97 

Of  hearing  of  assessment  roll  55 

Of  letting  local  improvement  contracts 57 

Notices :     Of  election 91,  97 

Of   referendum   elections   15 

To  be  published  in  official  newspaper  39 

Nuisances:     Council  may  provide  for  prevention,  abatement  and  punishment  of 26 

Oatli  of  office:     Who  to  take  100 

Oath:    Civil  Service  Commission  may  administer 86 

Comptroller  and  deputies  may  administer  66 

Finance  Committee  may  administer  17 

Health  Officer  may  administer  74 

What  officers  may  administer  106 

Official  Ballots:    Preservation  of 96 

Official  bonds:    Who  to  give  90 

Official  newspaper:     How  designated  38 

Offices:     Council  may  establish,  abrogate  and  define  duties  of 33 

Not  abolished  by  change  of  ward  boundaries 11 

Not  to  be  created  except  as  provided  by  law  or  charter 106 

Vacancies,  how  filled  100 

When  to  be  kept  open 106 


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Oftioes:    Appointment  of  to  fill  vacancies  - 41 

Appointments  of  to  be  in  writing 106 

Appointive  and  elective 99 

Oaths  of  office  of,  qualifications  of 100 

Removal  of 101 

Salaries  of  90 

Suspension  of  101 

Terms  of  office  of  elective  and  appointive  100 

To  give  bonds  100 

When  to  qualify  100 

"Who  shall  be  deemed  19 

Ordinances:     Authorizing  obligation  must  specify  object  of  expenditure 37 

Board  of  Appeals  to  recommend  52 

Clerk  shall  record  19 

Clerk  to  have  custody  of  original  rolls  42 

Council  may  amend  and  repeal   33 

Deposit,  record  and  publication  of 19 

Enacting  clause,  form  of  18 

Former,  to  remain  in  force 40 

Granting  franchises  may  be  amended  or  repealed 34 

Granting  franchises,  when  to  pass 18 

Mayor  shall  enforce  40 

^layor  to  perform  duties  prescribed  by  40 

Must  provide  penalties  for  violations  38 

Not  to  pass  at  meeting  when  introduced:   exception  18 

People  may  initiate  or  demand  referendum  of 14-15 

Title  of.  what  to  contain 18 

To  be  published,  when  39 

Vote  required  to  pass  18 

When  bills  -to  become  without  Mayor's  approval  19 

When   to   take    effect   15-19 

Parks :     Control  of : 78 

Council    may    acquire    and    improve    .._ - 21 

Park  Commissioners:     Appointive  officers   99 

Appointment  and  duties  77 

Not  under  civil  service  85 

Park  Department  ....' 77 

Limit  of  taxation  for       19 

Park  drives:     Control  of 78 

Park  Fund:     Established 70 

What  to  consist  of   77 

Park  police:     Appointment  of  78 

Park  property :     How  acquired  78-79 

Party  walls:     Council  may  regulate  25 

Passes:     Officers  not  to  accept  102 

Payment:    For  labor  and  material  for  local  improvements  secured 58 

Of  persons  disabled  in  civil  service  89 

Of  political   assessments   prohibited    88 

Of  unauthorized  claims,  liability  for 106 

Penalty:     Council  shall  provide  for  fraudulent  signing 103 

For  delinquent  assessments  ' 56-57 

Permit:    For  work  in  case  of  emergency  61 

Required  for  construction  under  franchises  62 

Required  for  interment,  disinterment  and  removal  of  bodies 74 

Required  for  removing  persons  having  infectious  disease 73 

Required  to  connect  with  public  sewer  62 

Pest  Houses:     Council  may  establish  and  regulate  24 

Establishment  and  maintenance  of  72 

Petition:     For  amendment  to  charter  103 

For  initiative  and  referendum  12 

For  local  improvements,  who  to  make;  to  whom  presented;  what  to  contain.... 52-53 

For  nomination   93 

For  recall  election  98-99 

For  referendum  of  street  railway  franchises 34 

For   simple   referendum 14 

Physician:     Health  Officer  to  be  C'ty 71 


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Physicians:     To  report  births  and  deaths  72 

To  report  infectious  diseases  to  Jiealth  Officer  72 

Plans:     City  Engineer  to  make  47 

Planting  of  Trees:     Council  may  order  in  streets  33 

Plats:     Of  parks  to  be  filed  78 

Ordinances  approving  and  vacating,  how  published  19 

Play  grounds :     Control  of 78 

Plnmliinar:     Council  shall   regulate 73 

Sanitary  Inspector  to  be  inspector  of  73 

Poles:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  regulate  in  streets 46 

Police:     Appointment  of  park 78 

yiay  make  arrests,  how    44 

Mayor  may  appoint  emergency  43 

Powers  and  duties  of  Chief  of 43 

Shall  execute  process  of  Finance  Committee 17 

To  enforce  quarantine   74 

Police  Department  42 

Police  force:     Chief  to  control  43 

]\Iayor  to   assume   command,   when 40 

Police  Judge:     To  issue  process  to  Chief 43-44 

Police  Officers:     Council  may  fix  number;  limit 43 

Duties  of  44 

Not  to  engage  in  business,  become  ball  or  recommend  attorneys 44 

Police  powers:     Sanitary  Inspector  to  have  73 

Politics:     Civil  service  examination  not  to  relate  to 83 

Political  assessments  and  contributions:     Prohibited  87 

Political  party:     Vacancy  filled  from  same  101 

Political  serviees:     Recommendations  for  prohibited  88 

Polls :     When  open  96 

Poll  lists:     Keeping  of : 97 

Poll  tax:     Council  may  provide  for  road  19-20 

Port  of  Seattle:     Control  of  streets  to  pass  to.  when 21 

Port  Warden:    An  appointive  officer  '. 99 

Appointment  and  duties  of 77 

Not  under  the  civil  service   85 

Postage:     To  be  paid  from  contingent  fund 67 

Power  plant:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  control 47 

Precincts:     Boundaries  of;  division  of  wards  into;  size , 11 

President:     Of  Council;   election  and  removal  of 16 

Head  of  Legislative  Department  ...' 12 

To  sign  bills,  when  and  how  18 

When  to  act  as  i\Iayor  .- 41 

Primary  Elections:     When  to  be  held 91 

Printing:     Call  for  bids  for  City 38 

Prison:     Keeper    of    City 44 

Prisoners:     Council  may  provide  for  working 24 

Property   taken   from , 44 

Proceedings:     In  name  of  City ;.. 3 

Not  abated  by  adoption  of  charter 4 

Process:     Issued  to  Chief  of  Police,  service  and  return .....^ 43-44 

Proclamation  by  Mayor:     Assuming  control  to  police  force ....: 40 

Profiles:     City  Engineer  to  make 47 

For  sewers,  Engineers  to  prepare 62 

Promotion:     Of  civil  service  employes 84 

Property:     Account  of  to  be  published      : 39 

City  may  acquire,  convey  and  mortgage 3 

Council  may  acquire  and  dispose  of 20 

Taken  from  prisoners;   record  to  be  kept  of;  Chief  responsible  for '. 44 

Title  to  public  vested  in  City 3 

Proposals:     For  City  printing 38 

Prostitutes:     Council    may    restrain    and    punish 32 

Pnblic  Employment  office -. 87 

Public  Halls:     Council  may  require  suitable  exits 26 

Public  Libraries:     Council   may   provide  for 24 

Title  of  property  in  City  : 81 

Qualification  of  Librarian   81 

Public  Offices:     When  to  be  open 106 


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Public  Records:     Clerk  to  have  custody  of 42 

Public  >Vorks:     City  Engineer  to  supervise  construction  of 47 

Department  of  45 

Publication:     Of  bills  granting  franchises 18 

Of  call  for  bids  for  local  improvements 57 

Of  call  for  bids  for  City  printing  ? 38 

Of  call   for   warrants   67 

Of  civil  service  rules 83 

Of  initiative  and  referendum  ordinances 15 

Of   Mayor's   objections    to    bills 18-19 

Of  notice  of  bond  election , 37 

Of    civil    service    examinations 84 

Of  election  97 

Of   filing   assessment   rolls    56,57 

Of  filing  reassessment  rolls  59 

Of  questions  submitted  to  voters 97 

Of  recall  election  98 

Of  referendum   election 15 

Of   ordinances    19 

Of  ordinances,  resolutions,  notices,  tax  and  assessment  sales  and  proceedings. ..  39 

Of  amendment  to  City  Charter 103 

Public  Utilities:     Appointment  and  duties  of  Superintendent  of 48 

Punishment:     For  violation  or  ordinances,  Council  may  provide  for;   limit  of 32 

Qualifications:     Of  City  Engineer  47 

Of  Commissioner  of  Health   71 

Of  Corporation  Counsel  82 

Of  Councilmen  16 

Of  Librarian  81 

Of    Mayor    40 

Of  members  of  Board  of  Appeals 51 

Of  officers 99 

Of  Superintendent  of  Buildings 50 

Of  voters   96 

Quarantine:     All  officers  to  enforce  regulations 75 

Council    may    make    regulations 26 

Duties  of  Health  Officer  with  reference  to 73-74 

^laintenance  of  indigent  families  during 75 

Quarries:     City  may  acquire  and  operate   22 

Quorum:     Of  Auditing  Committee  69 

Of  Board  of  Public  Works ...., 45 

Of  Civil  Service  Commissioners  '..;- 82 

Of  Council : -- 16 

Railroads:     Council  may  authorize  and  regulate 21 

Officers  not  to  accept  passes  on 102 

Permit  for  construction  required  61 

Railways,  street:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  regulate  construction  of 46 

Council  may  provide  for  operation  of  by  City,  ?nd  mny  regulate:   election  re- 
quired,   when    23 

Franchise,  what  to  contain ,,.... 34 

Real  Property:     City  may  acquire,  convey  and  mortgage 3 

Reassessments:     For  deficiencies  on  local  improvements ; 61 

For  local  improvements,  when  and  how  made „■...... 58-59 

Pending,  how  completed 4 

Rebate:     Of  local  improvement  assessments  58 

Recall  Elections   98 

Receipts:     Biennial  statement  to  be  published 39 

Comptroller  to  make  estimate  of :. 65 

Of  street  railways.  City  to  receive  percentage ...:: 34 

Treasurer  to  keep  account  of ; 66 

Record:     Of  arrests.  Chief  of  Police  to  keep 44 

Of  births,  deaths,  interments  and  cremations ;....  72 

Of  conduct  of  police 45 

Of  permits  of  burial,  disinterment  and  removal  of  bodies 74 

Of  proceedings  of  Advisory  Board 42 

Of  Auditing  Committee  69 

Of  Board   of  Public   Works 45 

Of  Council;  Clerk  to  keep 42 

Of  Finance  Committee 17 


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Records:     Chief  of  Fire  Department  shall  keep , 76 

Clerk  to  have  custody  of  public 42 

Comptroller  to  keep  what 65 

Open  to  public  inspection 106 

Superintendent  of  Public  Utilities  to  keep 48 

Reconsideration:     Of  bills  failing  to  pass,  of  vetoed  bills 19 

Referendum:     Power  of  reserved  by  people 14 

Street   railway   franchises   subject  to 34-35 

Reform  Schools:     Council  may  establish  and  maintain 24 

Refunding:     Funded  indebtedness  37 

Registered  Voters:     Twenty  per  cent,  may  propose  charter  amendment... 103 

Eight  per  cent,  may  demand  referendum 14 

Ten  per  cent,  may  initiate  ordinances 12 

Twenty  per  cent,  may  demand  special  election  on  initiative  bills 13 

Religion:     Civil  service  examinations  not  to  relate  to 83 

Repeal:     Ordinances  granting  franchises  subject  to 34 

Ordinances  subject  to  33 

Resolutions:     Deposit   and  record  of  19 

To  be  published,  when 38 

To  grant  street  railway  franchises 34 

Retail  Liquor  License:     Amount  of  31 

Retirement:     From  civil  service  on  account  of  age 89 

Returns:     Comptroller  to  require  verification  of 66 

Of  election,  how  made  and  canvassed 97 

Revenue:     Comptroller  to  estimate  for  ensuing  year 66-68 

Sources  of  City  to  be  published 39 

Revenues:     Comptroller's  report  to  show  source  of 66 

To  be  apportioned  to  funds 70 

Riots     Power  of  ?iIayor  and  duties  of  male  inhabitants  in  case  of 40 

Road  Poll  Tax:     Council  May  provide  for 19 

Roll:     "Immediate  Payment"  assessment 56 

"Payment  by  Bonds"  assessment 57 

Salary:     Of  Boiler  Inspector  105 

Of  Board  of  Examiners  of  engineers  in  charge  of  steam  boilers 105 

Of  Commissioner  of  Health  71 

Of  Civil  Service  Commissioners  87 

Of  Councilmen  15 

Of  INIayor,  Treasurer,  Comptroller  and  Corporation  Counsel 90 

Of  members  of  Board  of  Appeals  : 51 

Of  police  force  fixed  by  ordinance 44 

Salaries:     Comptroller  to  post  list  of 66 

Comptroller  to  report  amount  required  for 68-69 

How  fixed;  when  paid:   how  paid 90 

Must  be  authorized  by  law 106 

Not  to  be  changed  during  term 90 

Of  ofllicers  forfeited  for  accepting  passes 102 

Saloons:     License  and  bond:  number  and  location  or' 26,30 

Sanitariums:     Council  may  establish  and  regulate 24 

Sanitary  Inspector:     An  appointive  officer 99 

Appointment,  powers  and  duties  of 73 

Sanitation     Department  of 71 

Scales:     Council  may  provide  for 23 

Scarlatina:     Report  of  required  72 

Scliools:     Council  may  establish  and  maintain  reform  and  training 24 

Duties  of  superintendent  and  principals  with  reference  to  infectious  diseases 72 

Health  Officer  to  visit  71 

Seal:     Clerk  to  have  custody  of  City 42 

City  may  have,  use  and  alter  common 3 

Seattle  Public  Library:     Title  of  property  in  City 81  . 

Librarian  of  81 

Secretary:     Of  Auditing  Committee,  duties  of 68 

Of  Board  of  Public  Works,  an  appointive  officer :. 99 

Appointment  and  duties  of  45 

Duties  as  to  City   printing   38 

Of  Civil  Service  Commission,  powers  and  duties 86 

Of  Mayor  not  under  civil  service 85 


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Sewers:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  control 46 

Board  of  Public  Works  may  construct  to  carry  out  system  of  sewerage 62-63 

City  Engineer  to  prepare  plans  for 62 

Council  may  acquire  property  for 63 

Council  may  order  construction  and  repair  of 5-i 

Council  to  order  construction  of 62 

Heated  substances  not  to  be  discharged  into 62 

Limit  of  taxation  for  19 

Permit  to  connect  with  required  62 

Repair,  cleaning  and  reconstruction  of 46 

Right  of  way  for  through  private  property 63 

Sanitary  Inspector  to  be  inspector  of 74 

Superintendent  of,  appointment,  powers  and  duties 48 

Title  of  real  estate  for  in  name  of  City 62 

Sewer  Districts:     Council  may  establish 54 

Shade  Trees:     Council  may  order,  planted  in  streets - 33 

Ships:     Council    may    regulate   landing    of 25 

Subject  to  quarantine,  when;    regulations 73 

Shore  Lands:     Streets  established  over 104 

Sidewalks:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  superintend  building  of 46 

Council  may  improve  and  regulate 21 

Council  may  order  construction  and  repair  of 53-54 

Repair,  cleaning  and  reconstruction  of 48 

Signatures:     Of  electors  on  proposition  for  charter  amendments '. 103 

On  initiative  and  referendum  petitions 14 

On  petitions  for  recall  elections 98 

Sinking  Fund:     Comptroller  to  report  amount  required  for 68 

For  payment  of  bonds,  when  to  be  raised 37 

Statement  of  to  be  published 39 

Smallpox:     Duties  of  Health  Officer  with  reference  to;  report  of  required 72 

Societies:     Appropriations  in  aid  of 36 

Special  Elections:     Council  may  provide  for 91 

For  granting  street  railway  franchises 35 

On  initiative  and  referendum  bills 14-15 

Special  Meetings:     Of  Council,  who  to  call 18 

Special  Policemen:     Council  may  provide  for 43 

Specifications:     City    Engineer   to   make 47 

Statistics:     Bureau  of  Labor  87 

Health  Officer  to  report,  what 72 

Steam:     Discharge  of  into  sewers  prohibited,  when 62 

Steam  Boilers:     Licensing  and   inspection  of 105 

Steam  Boiler  Inspector:     Appointment  and  duties  of 105 

Steam  Pipes:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  regulate  laying  of 46 

Council  may  regulate  33 

Stone  Quarries:     Acquiring,  opening  and  operating : 22 

Storage:     Council  may  fix  rates  of 25 

Streams:     Council  may  regulate  26 

Streets:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  control .......—. 46 

Certain   subject  to  common   user 34 

City  may  manufacture  material  for  construction  of 22 

Construction  in  under  franchise,  permit  for  required 61 

Control  of  streets  to  pass  to  the  Port  of  Seattle,  when 21 

Council  may  change  grade,  how 21 

May  establish,  improve,  vacate  and  regulate 21 

May  extend  over  tide  land  and  harbor  areas,  and  improve 32 

May  order  improvement  of 54 

May  order  trees  planted  in   33 

Improvement  of  as  park  drives 79 

Leading  to  navigable  waters.  Council  may  construct  wharves  in 77 

Limit  of  taxation  for  improvement  of 19 

No  exclusive  franchise  in  34,36 

Over  tide  and  shore  lands,  establishment  of 104 

Powers  and  duties  of  Superintendent  of 48 

Repair,  cleaning  and  reconstruction  of 48 

Saloons  on  corners  of  30 

Street  Railroads:     Council  may  authorize  and  regulate : 21 

Street  railroad  passes:     Officers  not  to  accept 102 


128  INDEX  TO  CITY  CHARTER 

Page 

Street  raihvaj  franchises:     City  may  acquire 34 

How  granted  34 

Subject  to   common   use,   what 34 

Street  railways:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  regulate  construction  of  in  streets 46 

Council    may    provide    for   operation   of   by   City,    and    may   regulate;    election 

required,  when  22-23 

Permit  for  construction  required 61 

Sub-letting:     Of  contracts  for  local  improvements 52 

Subpoena:     Finance  Committee  may  issue  for  witnesses 17 

Suits:     For  claims  for  damages,  when  begun 37 

For  recovery  of  cost  of  completing  contract .., 65 

Of  cost  of  draining  private  property 63 

Of  loss  of  property  taken  by  police 44 

Of  money  withheld  by  officers 67 

May  be  brought  in  name  of  City 3 

Not  abated  by  adoption  of  charter 4 

Sunday:     No  public  work  on 61 

Offices  not  to  open  on 106 

Superior  Court:     Police  may  receive  fees  in. 44 

Superintendent  of  Building:     Appointment,  powers  and  duties 50 

Superintendent  of  Lighting:     An  appointive  officer 99 

Appointment  and  duties  49 

Not  under  civil  service  85 

Superintendent  of  Public  Utilities:    How  appointed  and  term  of  office 48 

Power  and  duties 48 

Superintendent  of  Schools:     Duties  with  reference  to  infectious  diseases 72 

Superintendent  of  Streets  and  Sewers:     An  appointive  officer 99 

Appointment  and  duties  of  49 

Not  under  civil  service   85 

Superintendent  of  Waterworks:     An  appointive  officer 99 

Appointment  and  duties 49 

Not  under  civil  service  .■ 85 

Sureties:     For  contractors,  officers  not  to  be 102 

On  contractor's  bond  63 

On    official    bonds 90 

Surrender:     Of  contracts  with  City 65 

Surveys :     City  Engineer  to  make 47 

Suspension:     Of  civil  service  employes  85 

Of  Councilmen  101 

Of  officers   101 

Tax  Collector:     Duties  of;  treasurer  to  be  ex-officio 66 

Taxes:     Comptroller  to  estimate  amount  required  to  be  levied 68 

Council   may   provide   for   assessment,   levying  and   collection   of:    amount    for 

certain  purposes  limited:  poll  tax 19 

Council  shall  fix  rate  and  levy,  when 68 

Loans  in  anticipation  of  collection  of 36 

On  liquor  traffic.  Council  may  provide  for 26 

Provision  of  former  charter  relating  to  continued .., 70 

To  be  apportioned  to  funds 70 

To  provide  sinking  fund  for  bonds 37 

Tax  levy:     Council  may  make  for  library  fund 80 

For  park  fund,  limit  of 77 

Tax  Sales:     To  be  published,  when '. 39 

Telegrams:     To  be  paid  from  contingent  fund ; 67 

Telegraph:     Lines,  permit  for  construction  required 61 

Poles  in  streets.  Board  of  Public  Works  to  regulate 46 

Telephone:     Franchises,  City  may  acquire 34-35 

Term  of  office:     In  classified  civil  service 85 

Of  City  Engineer ,....: 47 

Of  Civil  Service  Commissioners  82 

Of  Commissioner  of  Health  : 71 

Of  Councilmen 15 

Of  elective  officers 98 

Of  Library  Board  81 

Of  members  of  Board  of  Appeals 51 

Of  Park  Commissioners  77 

Of  Superintendent  of  Buildings 50 


risTlbfeX  TO  CITT  C!EfA:lt¥ER  129^ 

Tei'^  of  Office— (Continued)  .       ,      ,  ,  Page 

;,      Of  Superintendent  of  Lighting  :;;;::;:::::;;;::..::;:.^j;:l^?:?J?A^..^:£H?...!^M«Jj?J^...:^^^^...J.y  't^Sf 

V      Of  Superintendent  of  Public  [SiSmAei}:I}}^l.?^}2lJ^L^}}kn^?^l.^^h^^^.J.^..     48 

Of  Superintendent  of  Streets  and^'geweTs{£¥.^!a^7..^?rf..i:i7.{-i{{!.?l?..2?i...^.ifiil^  48 

;„■     Of  Superintendent  of  Water  Worlds :::..::}::Il^}}1.9lJl^^Bk^:^J^L:?J:!^:.:.l /...... 2:.,.     49 

Terms  of  office:     Of  appointive  and  elective  officers rjr-'-TC>iT?-'i-0ir-V;--"ui ri"''^-    ^^ 

Tide  lands:     Council  may  extend  streets  over;^„^f„„j...^^.....^^,^.^..4;,..^;::^.^^^:.-.^^^3^ 

Struts   established   over   ^ .^^^.^^^^^^^^.^^^....^.^.^.^^^.^.:^.^^^^ 

Ties  in  elections:     How  decided ,p,-,..,,^^,^...j^.j....^.^,^p_^^..... 97 

Title:     To  parks,  limit  of  improvement  before  acquiring_jl.,,^g^-jj^j^.^.!^.. ,  ,7-^. 

To  property  vested  in  City  .:. ^...^......................J.^^^^^^^^ 

Titles  of  ordiuauces:     What  to  contain  v. iH<.\..4i^i.K»0i :-..u— •.-.^.-i....,H,i^K>f>---K?— -i-rtf;{J-'-»-     i^ 

Trades:     Council    may    regulate    offensiye4,%^-j/...,i.-je- .^j— -,caiK...ii;^fi,,v;>-     24 

Ttaftic :     Council  may  regulate  liquor ^/.i,.!.iv/--.-i-•.>;>^>^-.>--i.-■-^->Jj-v--.->l.^y4^h..^'4!,,^ 

May  be  excluded  from  parks  ,.-..i^uih.^>i.i«.vA..,..-.M;k.^>3../:>/^-x.c^r;H----v;-i-t>w-^^-}--^^  78 

Training'  scliools:     Council   may   establish  and  maintain ..'.... .^.^...u.„j,.j.j{,/..     24 

Transfer:     Of  contracts  with  City ,,,..,.,,,,,,,,...,,.,,,,...,,,.,,, ..,.,,.......j^...3.f^£.i.;,i^.u..,,q..     64 

i,.      Of  funds,  how  made;  certain  prohibUed..........-....^.^^^.,^..^,^.,..^^^..^^^.,,^::..^^^^^ 

Of  liquor   licenses    ........................^^^^^^^^^ 

Treasurer:     An  elective  officer ,„^Llli.v•lJ^.i^uu.:^.o..^^..,^^::^.vi^.^^.^,^^.^^.^^.:...^.~.-.^..:i^---.^'.■:.,.     99 

Clerks  of  not  under  civil  service ,.,,....i^,.i j.(.\..\^ip,. 85 

Duties  of  with  reference  to  water  system.,,,,,,..,,,.,.,..;.,.,....,,...,,,,.,..,........;,..._.-..^..^. ..,,...„..     50 

Ex-offlcio  tax  collector;    duties ■^^..uifi.^^if^,^..i:yiiii..^^ii^^\...h^^ifi..,/,^^t^i:^{..iAi[^.     66 

Finance  Committee  to  examine  books  of,  when.,...,,,,|..',j,'^^4...v/4.Hi--rfe-'^tr^--7?-Tet!--iifi-     1''' 

Powers  and  duties  of  ..,....._...,............,....^....,......ixy.\ii4-i...iii.iyi.^^ 

^''      Members  of  Advisory  BQard---..-„....„,..,„..,.-.,,.-.-a>irivv-..,4H->^i-y44o-4f::---.(e-'.-'^^---H>---^^  42 

:      Not  to  pay  salaries,  when.„,.-9A«Jitji%»i;--4>A*,---i-oJ--v-ti4-v.(*<-c{---£«&'--->^>-ri-^^ 

Salary    of    ■...j:.jjA.j,..,......tii..j.Alij:yiAiij^c,Cx4^iih--i^iis-f^n>^--i^¥-.^^--^^^'-^^^ ^l«-•^^^l?^--■-^r^--•3-■,;i9fir 

To  collect  bills  for  water  and  light. ...,„,,,,,,,,,...,,,,..,,,,,.,,,,, ,,.,,... 50 

To  collect  local  assessments „,.,......„„,,„,,,„„,.., to-fW.u:'-——-, , i.60i 

00      To  issue  receipts  for  license  fees. ,„...,......„....,.„,,....,,'..,....-,.,,... .,.,....,--. jjj^.fvi— ^. , ;  ,67. 

To  make  payments  from  contingent  fund,-.-...,...,.r..j-->5>-i-k->rv--€^^--i^-H-v-K-r'-;-"i------^'''*fM-f----+-;  ■  ■'ol' 

To  pay  out  library  fund,  how ......i...i.^iaa..-9-j,'ji#jit»-t--"---:->:----'^--.-.---:--" /..f4.fj^j^.f.^..-^.^r-81' 

■^■'i      To  pay  warrants  on  park  iun6:.x,^Jii:§:&-'i-i>iifi--'4oi—-ii-Ur-^Q-i -. •.-.w'4i'#..-f<j;;8|af 

T*i^easury:     Comptroller  to  be  acquainted' wfth  febiiditioii  of....... —.....— ..;-c.— .;.!ru(:ui;i/...xv  66r 

'-'-      W^arrants  upon  to  be  countersigned  by  Comptroller .C'.]..al(.L/.uiii..iiiai.:i-.a!ij.uJ.     66 

Trees:  Council  may  order  planted  in  streets..;. ..i.i.'..;-..'.^...:..L^.7Y.uCl..Jt.i.:...itL'iij.a?.jJiiiti3:u'-^:.  33 
Trial:  For  violation  of  ordinances;  CounciL  mayprdvld^^fiM^'.U....;.?..i'.UL>.ti.")JJ]..Jb.iui..ir.l;li.;L80 
'■^-      Of  suspended  officers  by  Council.:i!AftLiJ.MJ...Ilf.Ui...':i?.iL::O.U...:Lfii.y...ii:uiii.o.J....i.^ 

fnistee:     City  may  act  as ...,.-,:::... :;^:'  ?iA..:^f^/^..!=:?£if22....-.^^^''^:'''f''^^ 

Trustees,  Library  ^^I^..l92 ,.I?.?L..2lA';[0..;iAL»H2iI....'.»^/:?^'^fe!' 

Trustees,  Park  .v..:;::....:,::;:.:.:.:::;:::;::::;::-,::::.-:...yi.:!..^M:[^£:..:?l..:iS^^A?f!;:[...l^AQ.     77 

Tiigs:     Council  may  Ucen^^\n^'T^^eitel.^!:±::::...^:ij:!:±^]L^^^  26 

Tunnels:     Council  may  construct,  repair  and  ^egulaf6.h^^.?.l..!?.■?.•^-..?.-'*7.yr?.L..M■l'^ 22 

Tjplioid  fever.  Typhus  fever:     Report  of  required 72 

Yacancies:      In  Civil  Service  Commission,  how  filled.... , 84 

In  classified  civil  service,  how  filled .'.lo..?.tl7^1l?..?l-?.L¥.?.?.l..'i^!.'^ 89 

In  offices,  what  to  occasion,  how  filled....^.^::..:;.::i:i^f?,.^£!;i.M?^L:^:^?/.?..t^?i(L.^!^?!^ 100 

'       Occasioned  by  removal,  how   filled ^^I}^2^LlS-^El:B.Z9L:2^.:?::^}^^!^J^Jl.     41 

•^^j;      When  filled  from  same  political  party ...UU.LQ.a.i.A....;.'>.ejatiuiL.*J.Oilj>il..:ilJi.&jjJ  101 

Tacation:     Of   plats,   publication   of  ordinance   for.:..-?:2..-?:?.:i'.".  :..:... ^^l.^Jj.^:!.^'.:^ '..:     19' 

Of  streets.  Council  has  power  of ;:......!' 9;.. ■^....:. 21' 

I';'      Of  streets  over  tide  and  shore  lands.................... .i:l'.y.9.'/..^.'.lt..*"ie4' 

•  '      Of  unsanitary  buildings .....^i.L. ,.......:^....}^?:^L.^^::^^^^W 

Vacations :     Of  employes  under  civil  service:;...f!fi:?..f.' .l^.iH..l'.?.'A!'!!?.V...,.'.r.::t?.'^'.l?.4.,.^"''W 

Vag-rants:     Council  may  restrain  and  Ti^nish::X^X}1.2L^::L.:..:.:l!!R:^ '.. :}}}.. .VLl'}.\P't¥ 

Vaults:     Council  may  provide  for  cleaning ?;[![.".7.1'.?.{!^.».^.H^M.'.. :.1?..'.:'.L..'^'>"2«6^ 

Council  may  require  cleaning  and  draining  of 63 

Verification:     Of  claims  against  City 69 

Vessels:     Council   shall   regulate  landing  of 76 

Subject  to  quarantine,  when;   regulations 73 

Vetoed  bills:     Mayor's  objections  to;    reconsideration  of 19 

Violations  of  ordinances:     Council  shall  impose  penalties  for 38 

Vote:     By  yeas  and  nays,  when  Council  to 16 

On  reconsideration  of  vetoed  bills 19 

Required  to  allow  local  improvements  without  petition 53 

When  taken  on  motion  to  reconsider 19 


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INDEX  TO  CITY  CHARTER 


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Voters:     May   demand    recall    election 9S 

:\Iay  demand  referendum  of  street  railway  franchises 36 

:\Iay  initiate  or   demand   referendum   of   ordinances 14 

May  propose  amendments  to  charter,  how 103 

Qualifications  of  96 

Submission  of  question  to  9" 

Voting-  places  hj   ballot:     How  designated 96 

A'oucliers :     For   park   expenditures 80 

Treasurer  to  deliver  to  successor  67 

Walls:     Council  may  regulate  party 24 

Wards:     Boundaries  of  defined  4 

Change  of  boundaries  not  to  abolish  office 11 

Council   may  redistrict  and  create,  when 10 

Council  shall  divide  into  precincts,  when 11 

New  territory  annexed  to  or  created  into 11 

Number  of  1^ 

Population  of  11 

Warrant:     Arrest  with  and  without : 44 

Warrants:     Comptroller  to  countersign  all 66 

Council  may  issue  for  purchase  of  cemetery 107 

How  called  and  paid  by  Treasurer - 67 

How    issued    66 

On  library  fund,  issue  and  payment  of 81 

On  park  fund,  how  issued 80 

Water:     Council  may  grant  charities  free 22 

Discharge  of  sewer  prohibited,  when - 62 

Water  Conrses:     Council  may  provide  for  and  regulate 26 

Water  Department:     Duties  of  Treasurer  and  Comptroller  in  reference  to 50 

Limit  of  taxation  for  19 

Water  front:     Council  to   control   , 76 

Water  fund 69 

Water  rates:     Treasurer  to  collect 50 

Water  snpply:     Council  may  regulate  source  of 26 

Water  Ways:     Council  may  provide  for  and  regulate 25 

Water  Works:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  control 46 

Council  may  provide  for;  election  for - 22 

Superintendent  of,  powers  and  duties 49 

Weights  and  measnres:     Council  may  regulate 23 

Wharf  boats:     Council  may  license  and  regulate 26 

Wharfag'e:     Council  may  fix  rates  of  25 

Wharves:     Board  of  Public  Works  to  control  City 46 

City   Engineer  to  manage   City ■ 47 

Council  may  construct  in  streets  leading  to  navigable  waters 77 

May   Improve    and    regulate   21 

May    order    construction    of 77 

]\Iay  provide  for  and  regulate 25 

i\Iay  regulate  charges  on 76 

May  use  tide  land  and  harbor  area  sti'eets  for 32 

Franchise  for,  how  granted;  forfeited  36 

Wholesale  liquor  license:     Amount  of 31 

Wires:     Council   may   regulate   electric 33 

Withdrawal:     Of    nomination    95 

Witness:     Council  may  compel  attendance  of 17,101 

Witness   fees:     Police   may   receive,   when 44 

Work  houses:     Council  may  establish  and  regulate 24 

Working-  of  i>risoners:     Council  may  provide  for 24 

Yellow  fever:     Regulations  concerning 72 


THIS  BOOK  IS  DUE  ON  THE  LAST  DATE 
STAMPED  BELOW 


AN  INITIAL  FINE  OF  25  CENTS 

WILL    BE  ASSESSED    FOR    FAILURE   TO    RETURN 
THIS   BOOK   ON   THE   DATE   DUE.    THE   PENALTY 
WILL  INCREASE  TO  50  CENTS  ON  THE  FOURTH 
DAY     AND    TO     $1.00     ON     THE    SEVENTH     DAY 
OVERDUE. 

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